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parietal and prefrontal; supraocular about the same size as 
parietal, its lower point barely reaching eye; parietals some- 
what narrowed on their lower end; nasal completely divided; 
nasal suture arises from second labial and after passing nostril 
reaches rostral in a line horizontal to upper edge of nostril; 
nasals not in contact behind rostral; preocular reaching above 
level of eyes, about as broad as ocular, in contact with two labials 
below; its edge crosses over middle of eye; two postoculars 
only slightly differentiated from body scales; first labial very 
small, in contact with anterior nasal only; second labial nearly 
three time as large as first, touching both nasals and preocular; 
third labial more than twice as large as second, and a little 
larger than fourth; lower jaw narrow, about five scales on lower 
jaw between fourth upper labials; eye a visible black spot, very 
small, with no pupil evident ; about 338 scales from head to vent, 
10 subcaudally; tail ending in a small spine. 
Color in life. — Above reddish olive brown; below yellowish 
brown. Each scale with a darker yellowish brown area, giving 
body a checkered appearance on close examination ; rostral, nasal, 
and labials on underside of snout yellowish white. 
Measurements of Typhlops luzonensis sp. nov. 
Total length (mm.) 260 
Tail (mm.) 4 
Width of body (mm.) 4.5 
Width of head (mm.) 4.5 
Width of tail (mm.) 4 
Width of body in total length (times) 58 
Width of tail in tail length (times) 1 
Remarks . — Only the type specimen is known. The species is 
obviously related to the group of the genus represented by T. 
ruficauda, T. ruber, and T. kraalii, the first two of which are 
members of the Philippine fauna. From T. ruficauda it differs 
in having four less rows of scales about the body. From T. 
ruber it differs in having the preocular in contact with two labials, 
the nasal completely divided, and the length greater in propor- 
tion to the width of body. (Here the width of body is contained 
in the total length 58 times, while in T. ruber, it is contained 
36 times.) From T. kraalii it differs in having the rostral much 
more than one-third the width of the head, and the preocular 
in contact with two labials ; the color is also somewhat different. 
Typhlops manilae sp. nov. 
T'ype. — Specimen in Santo Tomas Museum, unnumbered; la- 
beled “Filipinas;” locality and collector unknown. 
