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b. Nasal shields small, separate above, on the side of a large swollen 
rostral shield : 4. Brmtia (g. n.) hradliana (sp. n., p. 448, with figure of 
head). 
c. Lateral and dorsal lines not defined, or the lateral line only visible 
on the hinder part of the body : 6. Sarea (Gray) j 6. Cade^ (Gray). 
Tribe 2. Anopinina. Head compressed, keeled on the sides in front j 
the nostrils lateral, on the underside of the keel. 
A. I-iateral line distinct and impressed : 7. Anops (Bell). 
B. Lateral line none, or only very slightly visible on the hinder part of 
the body : 8. Baikia (g. n., p. 450) africana (sp. n., p. 451, with a figure of 
head), from West Africa. 
In the Lepidosternidce the following new species are de- 
scribed : — 
Lepidosternon grayii, sp. n. (Smith, MS.), probably from South America j 
this may be the type of a distinct subgenus, Sphenocephalus. L. c. p. 452, 
with figure of head. 
Mompeltis (Smith). A second species of this genus from Angola is de- 
scribed by Dr. Gray under the name of Dalophia (g. n.) welwiUchiiy 1. c. 
p. 454 (with figure of head). [Closely allied to M. capensis, Smith.] 
OPHIDIA. 
Typhlopid^. 
Prof. Peters has continued his researches on this family 
(Monatsber. Akad. Wiss, Berlin, 1865, pp. 259-263), and de- 
scribed the following species as new : — 
Typhlops {Onychocephalus) giintheri (p. 259, fig. 1), from North Australia; 
Typhlops {Onychocephalus) ohtusus (p. 260, fig. 2), from Mossambique. — Ste- 
nostoma scutifrons is redescribed (p. 261, fig. 6). 
He has made the following remarks on the synonymy : — 
1. Onychophis franklinii Onychocephalus lalandii (Schleg.). 
2. Onychophis barroioii (Gray) = Onychoc. liberiensis (Hallow.) = Onychoc. 
congesius (D. & B.). 
3. Onychophis punctatus Typhlops eschrichtii (Schleg.). 
4. Anilios australis (Gray)= 1\ preissii (Jan). 
6. Anilios leachii (Gray) = T. richardii (D. & B.) = Z'. limibricalis (L.). 
6. Meditoria nasuta (Gray) — T. lumbricalis (L.), var. 
7. Argyrophis truncatus Onychocephalus (Smith) =? T. ac- 
cedens (Jan) = ? T. pammeces (Gthr.) = 2l braminus (Baud.). 
8. Anilios nigrescens (Gray) = T.polygrammicus (Schleg.) = T, ruppellii (Jan) 
= T, temminckii (Jan). 
9. Argyrophis horsjieldii (Gray)=T. diardii (D. & B.)= T. (Ptrs.) 
= T. bothriorhynchus (Gthr.)= T. teimis (Jan). 
10. Onychocephalus verticalis (Smith) = O. macrurus (Ptrs.). 
11. Typhlops excipiens (Jan) = T. russellii (Gray). 
