TYPHLOPS 65 



Table 8. — Measurements and scale counts of Typhlops longicauda Taylor. 



No. 



100 

 101 

 108 

 102 

 103 

 104. 

 105 

 106 

 107 



Length. 



Tail. 



Body 

 width. 



(») 



180 

 314 1 



(4 



286 

 210 

 235 

 285 

 316 

 340 



31 



26 



16 



27.5 



31 



23 



18 



22 



26 



?M. 6 



34.6 



6 



6.5 

 4 

 6 



Tail 

 width. 



4.9 

 4.25 

 2.7 

 4.5 



Body 

 width in 

 length. 



Tail 

 width 

 in tail 

 length. 



45 



62 



67 

 52 

 47 

 48 

 63 

 66.1 



6.1 



6.1 



6 



6.1 



6.2 



6.2 



6.7 



6.1 



6.2 



6.1 



7.2 



100. 

 101. 

 108. 

 102. 

 103. 

 104. 

 106. 

 106. 

 107- 

 98.. 

 99". 



Nasal di- Nasal suture 

 vided. arises. 



Collection. 



E. H. Taylor. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do 



« Mutilated. 



i> Tail only. 



"= Type. 



TYPHLOPS MINDANENSIS sp. nov. 



Type. — No. 96, E. H. Taylor collection; collected at Bunawan, 

 Agusan, Mindanao, August 12, 1913, by E. H. Taylor. 



Descriptiofi of type. — Head somewhat wedge-shaped, slightly 

 rounding to the rather sharp horizontal edge; below sloping 

 abruptly to mouth. The anterior edge of snout rounding and 

 not broken in outline; rostral above moderate, about as wide 

 as long, about one-third the width of head between eyes, not 

 reaching to level of eyes ; below, the enlarged part of rostral 

 wider than deep ; prefrontal much enlarged, much wider than 

 deep, separating nasals by a distance equal to more than a fourth 

 of its width, deeper and more than one and a half times as 

 large as frontal, larger than interparietal or supraocular, and 

 separated from preocular by a distance less than that between 



