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e-. Tail two and two-fifths times as long as broad; scales in 



22 rows - -- T. suluensis Taylor (p. 61). 



C-. Nasal cleft arising from first or second labials or their interlabial 

 suture; nasal completely divided; tail six to seven times as long 



as broad; scales in 26 rows - T. longicauda Taylor (p. 63). 



b". Preocular in contact with a single labial. 



c\ Nasal cleft arising from first interlabial suture; nasal not com- 

 pletely divided; tail three and four-fifths times as long as broad; 



scales in 26 rows -- T. mlndanensis sp. nov. (p. 65). 



C-. Nasal cleft arising from first labial; nasal completely divided; 

 tail four or five times as long as broad; scales in 24 

 rows..- - .- T. cumingii (Gray) (p. 66). 



TYPHLOPS BRAMINUS (Daudin) 



Eryx hraminus Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept. 7 (1803) 279. 



Tortrix russelii Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph. (1820) 84. 



Typhlops hraminiis CuviER, Regne Anim. ed. 2 (1829) 73; Bou- 

 LENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. 1 (1893) 16; Fauna Brit. India, Rept. 

 (1890) 236; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 104; Griffin, 

 Philip. .Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 2.54; Casto de Elera, Cat. Fauna 

 Filipinas 1 (1895) 423; Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58 

 (1907) 260; Taylor, Philip. .Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 354- 



Argyrophis hraniicus Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. (1845) 138. 



Argyrophis truncatus Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. (1845) 138. 



Fig. 2. Tiiiililops braminus (Daudin) ; after Stejneger: a, head, dorsal view; 6, liead, lateral 

 view ; c, head, ventral view : d, anal region and tail. 



Description of species. — (From No. 276, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected at La Granja, La Caiiota, Occidental Negros, 

 July, 1916, by H. C. McNamara.) Snout rounded in lateral 

 profile, projecting; rostral narrow, its upper portion about one- 

 third width of head, not extending quite to level of eyes; pre- 

 frontal not enlarged, very much rounded behind, separating the 

 nasals by a small distance, scarcely as large as frontal, but of 

 similar shape; frontal a little larger than interparietal, which 

 is followed by a very much larger scale; supraoculars not an- 

 gular, larger than frontal, their lower edge passing near middle 

 of eye; parietals slightly enlarged, larger than supraoculars, 

 followed by a large postparietal ; 2 nasals, anterior (or inferior) 

 much smaller than posterior ; suture dividing nasals arises from 



