Catalogue of Reptiles. 41 



ORDER, OPIIIDIA. 



First Sub-order. 

 SERPENTES.— COLUBRINI INNOCUI. 



FAMILY TYPHLOPID^E. 



TYPHLINA, Wagler. 

 T. lineata, Dum. et Bib. Pinang. 



TYPHLOPS, DUMERIL ET BlBRON. 



T. nigro-albus. Dum. et Bib. Pinanff. 



Back blackish, belly yellow. Colors well defined. 

 T. horsfieldii, Gray, 



Argyrophis bicolor, Gray. 

 a. b. Typhlops nigro-albus, Dum. et Bib. 



c. Argyrophis Diardii, Dum. et Bib. 



> apud Blyth. 



These specimens appear to me to belong rather to T. Horsfieldii 

 than to T. nigro-albus, as I cannot satisfactorily distinguish, with a 

 lens, any suture above the nostril, and the coloration too of the back 

 and belly is much blended. It is, however, difficult to distinguish 

 the sutures of specimens long preserved in spirit, a has a conspicuous 

 pit below the nostril, as in T. bothriorhynchus, but no trace of the small 

 anterior pit described by Giinther. 



T. bothriorhynchus, Giinther. Pinang. 



A groove below the nostril in the suture between the nasal and 

 ironto-nasal, and a smaller one between the rostral and nasal. 

 T. striolatus, Peters. Bengal. 



T. braminus, Daud. 



a. many specimens. Bengal, Assam, Sylhet, 



T. tenuis, Giinther. 



Argyrophis Braminus Daud, apud Blyth. 

 a. b. c. three specimens. Bengal. 



These would seem to belong to T. tenuis, Giinther, but are much 

 more slender than his figure in the Cat. Brit. Ind. Keptiles pi. XVL 

 fig. C. which was from probably a very old specimen. The largest 

 specimens measure 7.5, circumference 0.30, 



