10 



Measurements. Mm. 



Total length 130 



Length of head and body 78 



" fore limb 3 



" hind limb 1.3 



Width of head posteriorly 5 



This is one of those interesting forms allied to Gophias, 

 which exhibit degeneracy of feet and limbs in varying de- 

 grees. This genus is interesting as displaying greater per- 

 sistence of the fore limbs as compared with the posterior, which 

 are reduced to mere buds. In Ophiognomon Cope, the hind 

 limbs are similarly reduced, while in Propus Cope they have 

 disappeared ; but in both genera the fore limbs are more reduced 

 and there is no frontonasal plate. 



Two specimens, No. 10. 



Teetioscincus bifasciatus Dum., two specimens, No. — . 

 Mabuia agilis Eaddi, three specimens, No. — . 

 Amphisbjsna fuliginosa Linn., two specimens, No. 13. 



SERPENTES. 



EPANODONTA. 



Helminthophis anops sp. nov. Plate IV, Figure 1. 



Rostral wide, not half «s wide as head, broadly in contact 

 with the rather narrow transverse frontal. Three superior 

 labials, the first largest, the second and third higher than long. 

 Eye invisible. Five scales border the prefrontal and first labial 

 between the frontal and second labial, and seven scales separate 

 the first median scale from the third labial. Twenty-six rows 

 of scales. Tail as long as, or a little longer than, wide. 



Color dark brown, the scales of the dorsal half of the body 

 with a darker centre. Head yellow; tail and anal region uni- 

 form with the body. 



Total length, 372 mm. ; tail, 6 mm. 



This species has a tendency to subdivision of scales. In one 



