1847.] Catalogue of Reptiles, fye. 897 



CATALOGUE OF REPTILES 



Inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 



Collected or observed by Theodore Cantor, Esq., 31. 1)., Bengal 

 Medical Service. 



(Continued from No. CLXXX.) 



OPHIDIA. 



INNOCUOUS SERPENTS. 



FAM. TYPHLOPID.E, Gray. 



BURROWING. 

 Gen. Pilidion, Dumeril and Bibron. 

 Head covered with shields, cylindrical, very short, as if truncated, 

 convex above, declivous in front ; muzzle rounded ; rostral shield like 

 a large rounded cap covering the head and muzzle ; an anterior frontal, 

 a frontal, a pair of supra-orbital-, ocular-, nasal-, and fronto-nasal shields ; 

 neither parietals, inter-parietals, nor prse-orbitals ; nostrils hemispheri- 

 cal, under the muzzle, between the nasal-and fronto-nasal shields ; eyes 

 excessively small, hidden by the ocular shields. 



Pilidion lineatum, (Boie.) 



Syn. — Acontias lineatus, Reinwardt, MS. 

 Typhlops lineatus, H. Boie. 

 Typhlina, Wagler. 



Typhlops lineatus, Gray in Griffith, A. K. 

 Typhlops lineatus, Schlegel. 

 Pilidion lineatum, Dumeril and Bibron. 

 Typhlinalis lineatum, Gray : Catal. 



Ground-colour pale gamboge or orange, uniform on the head, the 

 apical third of the tail, and the abdomen ; interrupted on the back and 

 sides by 12 longitudinal, serrated brown lines, produced by a minute 

 triangular spot on each side of the scales. 



Habit. — Pinang Hills. 



Java, Sumatra, Singapore. 

 A single individual, captured by Sir William Norris, differs from the 

 description given by M. M. Dumeril and Bibron in the comparatively 



