TYPHLOPS 53 



tail ending in a small spine ; width of body in total length, 58 ; 

 tail as wide as long; scales in 20 rows. 



Color in life. — Above, a reddish olive brown ; below, yellowish 

 brown, each scale with a darker yellowish bro\^Ti area, giving a 

 checked appearance on close examination ; rostral, nasal, and 

 labials on underside of snout yellowish white. 



Measurements of Typldops luzonensis Taylor. 



mm. 



Total length 260 

 Tail 4 



Width of body 4.5 



Width of head 4..5 



Width of tail "" 4 



Remarks. — Only the type specimen is known. The species is 

 obviously related to the group of the genus represented by 

 Typhlops ruficauda, T. ruber, and T. kraalU, the first two of 

 which are represented in the Philippine fauna. From T. rufi- 

 cauda it differs in having 4 less rows of scales about the body 

 and the nasal completely, instead of partially, divided. From 

 T. rather it differs in having the preocular in contact with 2 

 labials instead of 1, the nasal completely divided, and the length 

 greater in proportion to the width of the body. (Here the width 

 of the body is contained in the total length 58 times, while 

 in T. ruber it is only 36.) From T. kraalii it differs in having 

 the rostral much more than one-third the width of the head, 

 and the preocular in contact with 2 labials instead of 1 ; in color 

 it is also somewhat different from T. kraalii, and the latter is very 

 probably a larger species. 



The type was collected low on the side of Mount Maquiling, 

 Laguna, Luzon. It was discovered under a rotting log. Noth- 

 ing further is known of its habits. 



TYPHLOPS JAGORII Peters 

 Typhlops jagorii Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1861) 684; Boettger, Ber. 

 Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 104; Boulengee,, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. 

 1 (1893) 18; Casto de Eleea, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 423; 

 Griffin, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 254. 



Description of species. — (After the type description.) Snout 

 depressed, rounded; nostrils lateral; upper portion of rostral 

 elliptic, about half as broad as head; nasals in contact behind 

 rostral; preocular present, in contact -with third labial only; 

 prefrontal larger than frontal; supraoculars smaller than pa- 

 rietal; 4 upper labials, second twice as large as first; 28 rows 

 of scales around the body. 



Color. — Above dark black, the underside, lips, and end of tail 

 yellow. 



