TYPHLOPS 55 



TYPHLOPS RUBER Boettger 



Typhlops ruber Boettger, Zool. Anz. 20 (1897) 164; Griffin, Philip. 

 Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 255. 



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

 depressed, snout rounded and strongly projecting; nostrils 

 lateral; rostral moderately broad, upper part somewhat more 

 than one-third the width of head, its posterior part not reaching 

 level of eyes, its underside clearly longer than broad ; nasal 

 almost entirely divided, the suture arising from second labial; 

 preoeular as broad as ocular, in contact below with only the 

 very large third labial ; eye small, very distinct ; upper head 

 shields, with the exception of the middle longitudinal row, con- 

 siderably larger than body scales; 4 upper labials, of which the 

 last 2 are especially well developed and of nearly the same size : 

 diameter of body in total length, 36 to 37 ; tail somewhat broader 

 than long, ending in a sharp spine ; 26 scale rows about body. 



Color. — ^Uniform, bright red-brown above; below scarcely as 

 bright as above. 



Total length, 225 millimeters. 

 . Remarks. — I have been unable to find specimens of this species. 

 Obviously it is very rare and, I believe, still known only from 

 the type, which came from Samar. This species is said to be 

 closely related to Ty-phlops kraalii from the Kei Islands near 

 New Guinea, but differs in being less slender, and in having 

 the tail shorter, the scales on the head larger, and the color 

 different. 



TYPHLOPS CANLAONENSIS Taylor 



Typhlops canlaonensis Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 11 (1917) 354. 



Description of species. — (From No. 241, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected at an elevation of about 750 meters on Canlaon 

 Volcano, Negros, December 25, 1915, by E. H. Taylor.) 

 Head depressed, a little wider than body; snout projecting mod- 

 erately; rostral elliptic, distinctly wider behind than at tip of 

 snout and failing to reach level of eyes by half the width 

 of prefrontal, more than one-third the width of head; nostrils 

 lateral, not visible from above; nasals large, not in contact be- 

 hind rostral, not completely divided by nasal cleft, which arises 

 from second labial and passes through nostril to a point about 

 halfway from nostril to rostral; nasal in contact with first 3 

 labials ; preoeular present, narrowed to a point at its upper end, 

 its greatest width, equal to that of ocular, occurs below level of 

 eye; preoeular narrowly in contact with supraocular above and 



