60 SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



comparison of the two descriptions. The roughness of the head 

 in T. ruyosa is not unhke that in T. crossii and T. regifix but here 

 tlie resemblance between them ceases. 



TYPHLOPS DENDROPHIS sp. nov. 



Type.— No. 93, E. H. Taylor collection ; collected at Bunawan, 

 Agusan, Mindanao, August 15, 1913, by E. H. Taylor. 



Description of type. — Head flattened above, elliptic in out- 

 line, broader than neck; snout in lateral profile rather wedge- 

 shaped, with a narrow, sharp, subcrescentic, transverse edge, 

 with nostrils inferior; rostral about as broad below as above, a 

 little more than one-third width of head, reaching level of eyes ; 

 prefrontal angular, forming a suture with rostral about one-third 

 its width, a little larger than frontal but of the same shape, much 

 Avider than deep ; frontal wider than deep, forming equal sutures 

 Avith prefrontal and interparietal; latter a little wider than 

 frontal and folloAved bj^ 2 or 3 enlarged scales (the latter char- 

 acter is not constant) ; supraocular wider than deep, its lower 

 point failing to reach eye ; parietals much elongate, twice as long 

 as wide, reaching to near level of eye ; nostril betAveen 2 nasals, 

 anterior very small and narrow, the suture diA'iding them arising 

 from first labial ; edge of rostral approaches close to nostril ; 

 preocular present, not as Avide or as deep as ocular, not touching 

 eye, in contact with 2 labials beloAA' ; 3 scales behind ocular ; latter 

 large, with a slight rounded prominence above eye ;■ first labial 

 as large as or larger than second, fourth larger than third; 

 tail ending in a sharp spine; 26 roAvs of scales about body, 497 

 in a longitudinal roAv from back of head to end of tail, 29 scales 

 under tail from anus to tip. Body width in body length, 49.7; 

 tail AAddth in tail length, 3.1. 



Color in life. — Above olive to broAvnish yelloAv. grading in- 

 sensibly into the lighter color on belly. Each scale with a lighter 

 and darker part; snout somewhat lighter. 



Measurements of Typhlops dcndrophis sp. nov. 



^ mm. 



Total length 398 



Tail 21 



Width of body § 



Width of tail 75 



Variation. — There are three specimens of this species in my 

 collection, and one mutilated specimen in the Bureau of Science 

 collection, all collected at BunaAA'an, Agusan. Mindanao. They 

 agree fairly Avell in measurements and proportions. The body 



