2. TTPHLOPB. 37 



51. Typhlops Mpartitus. 



Typhlops Mpartitus, Sauvage, Bull. Soo. Philom. (7) iii. 1879, p. 69. 



Snout rounded ; nostrils inferior. Eostral large ; nasal semi- 

 divided ; prseooular as broad as the ocular ; four upper labials. 22 

 scales round the body. Tail longer than broad. Tellowisli green 

 above, light brown inferiorly. 



Total length 250 miUim. 



Tidore (?) Island, Northern New Guinea. 



52. Typhlops tenuicollis. 



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Onychocephalus (Ophthalmidion) tenuicollis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 



1864, p. 272, pi. — . fig. 2. 

 Typhlops tenuicollis, Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 123 (1876); 



Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 241 (1890). 



Snout round and moderately projecting ; nostrils inferior. Eostral 

 broad, its upper portion more than half as broad as the head ; nasal 

 semidivided, the cleft proceeding from the second labial ; a prEeocular, 

 about as large as the ocular ; eyes not distinguishable ; prsefrontal 

 and frontal very broad, broader than the ocular and parietal ; four 

 upper labials. Diameter of body 65 times iu the total length ; tail 

 as long as broad, terminal scute obtusely conical. 22 scales round 

 the body. Olive-brown above, yellowish inferiorly. 



Total length 365 millim. 



Himalaya. 



53. Typhlops mucronatus. 



Typhlops (Ophthalmidion) mucronatus, Boettg. Zool. Anz. 1880, 

 p. 279, and Abh. Senckenb. Ges. xii. 1881, p. 438, pi. i. fig. 1. 



Snont very prominent, depressed, rounded, with inferior nostrils. 

 Rostral half the width of the head ; nasal nearly completely divided, 

 the cleft proceeding from the second labial ; prseocular present, a 

 little narrower than the nasal or the ocular, in contact with the 

 second and third labials ; eyes distinct ; upper head-scales enlarged ; 

 four upper labials. Diameter of body 42 to 55 times in the total 

 length ; tail as long as broad or a little longer, ending in a spine. 

 24 scales round the body. Grey-brown or oUve, lighter inferiorly. 



Total length 330 miUim. 



Nossi Be, Madagascar. 



a-b. Ad. & hgr. Nossi B4. Senckenberg Museum [E.]. 



54. Typhlops elegans. 



Typhlops (Ophthalmidion) elegans, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, 

 p. 450, pi. ii. fig. 1 ; Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. x. 1887, p. 199. 



Snout very prominent, rounded, with inferior nostrils. Eostral 

 large, about half as broad as the head, extending to the level of the 



