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cranii; no arches ; no infraorbital foramen ; premaxillary double. 
Limbs absent, the hind pair represented, in the male, by a pair of 
flaps on the sides of the anal opening ;_ no rudiments of the sternal 
apparatus. Body vermiform, covered with cycloid imbricate scales. 
No osteodermal plates. Eyes concealed under the skin. No ear- 
opening. No preanal pores. 
A single genus, which appears to stand in the same relation to 
the Scineide as Anniella to the Anguide. 
1. DIBAMUS. 
Dibamus, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 833 ; Gray, Cat. p. 129. 
Typhloscincus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 271. 
Rhinophidium, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 52. 
Snout normally covered by three large shields, viz. the rostral, 
and a labial on each side, which, however, may fuse into a single 
shield. WNostril pierced in the rostral, with a straight horizontal 
suture behind it. Limbs totally absent in the female, the hind pair 
represented in the male by two flap-like rudiments. 
New Guinea, Moluccas, Celebes, Nicobars. 
1. Dibamus nove-guinez. 
Dibamus novee-guinex, Gray, Cat. p. 129. 
Dibamus novee-guines, Dum. §& Bibr. v. p. 8384; Schleg. Handl. 
Dierk. ii. p. 82; Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, 
. 366. 
Typ loscincus martensii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 271, pl. —. 
fig. 1. 
Snout conical, obtuse, slightly projecting. Four enlarged shields 
on the head besides the rostral and labials, viz. a frontal, an inter- 
parietal, and an ocular on each side; interparietal shield largest ; 
the length of the frontal and interparietal together does not exceed 
the length of the rostral; eye scarcely distinguishable through the 
ocular; a narrow, elongate, trapezoid mental ; a very large sublabial 
. oneach side. Scales equal, 22 to 26 round the middle of the body. 
Preanal scales very small. Tail very short, obtuse. Uniform 
urplish brown. 
Total length 165 millim., tail 18. 
New Guinea, Moluccas, Celebes. 
ab. 2. New Guinea. ; 
cd. SQ. Waigiou. M. A. Linden [C.]. 
ef. dQ. Ternate. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 
gh. 32 P Dr. Bleeker. 
2. Dibamus nicobaricus. 
Rhinophidium nicobaricum Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 53. 
Ty ipactieds nicobaricus, Steind. l. ¢. p. 94, pl. iii. figs. 6-8, 
Dibamus nicobaricus, Stoliczka, Journ. As, Soc. Beng. xiii, 1873, 
p. 168; Theobald, Cat. Rept. Brit, Ind. p. 69. Per 
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