gg SNAKES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



nasals; the frontal, the smallest head scale, about as wide as 

 deep or a little wider, separated from ocular by a distance less 

 than that between prefrontal and preocular ; supraocular forms 

 its shortest suture with parietal, its longest with ocular, and 

 is narrowly distant from edge of eye; parietals enlarged, their 

 anterior part widest, about two and a half to three times as 

 long as wide ; interparietal larger than frontal, much wider than 

 deep, followed by a scale twice as wide as deep ; 2 scales border 

 parietals behind, slightly larger than the following body scales; 

 nasal not completely divided by nasal cleft, which issues from a 

 point above first interlabial suture ; a small pitlike depression 

 below each nostril; 3 labials in contact with nasal below; nasal 

 narrows above, the end curving to a point; preocular present, 

 very much narrower and much shorter than either nasal or 

 ocular, its edge reaching edge of eye, in contact with a single 

 labial below, narrowing to a point above ; ocular large, touching 

 2 labials below; eye distinct, with pupil showing; 3 slightly 

 enlarged postoculars ; 4 upper labials ; chin covered with slightly 

 enlarged scales, about 8 or 9 between angles of mouth ; 27 scale 

 rows about neck, 26 about anterior part of body, 24 in front 

 of anus ; anterior part of median ventral scale row has more 

 or less enlarged scales ; 35 scales in a longitudinal row from anus 

 to tip of tail ; body width in total length, 53 ; tail width in tail 

 length, 3.8 ; tail length in body length, 17. 



Color in life. — Above grayish to brownish yellow, this color 

 covering upper 13 scale rows, each scale with a large, dimly 

 defined, lighter area on its tip ; below lighter brownish yellow ; 

 to the eye the color appears nearly uniform ; the area about and 

 below the nostril and upper labials lighter than rest of head. 



Measurements of Typhlops mindancnsis sp. nov. 



mm. 



Total length, body severed gig 



Tail jg 



Width of body g 



Width of tail ^ gg 



/2-eTOa77f,s.— Only the type was taken. Apparently it has no 

 close affinity among the other Philippine species. (See remarks 

 under T. ragosa.) 



TYPHLOPS CUMINGII (Gray) 



Onychophis cmningu Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. (1845) 133 

 Onychocephalus cumingn Boettgur, Ber. Senck. Nat Ges. (1SS6) 104 

 Typhlops cumingii Boulenger, Vai. Snakes Brit. Mu^ 1 (1893) 51 

 pl. 3, fig. 4; Griffin, Philip. .Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 255 



