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presence of a subocular. It belongs to the division of the genus 
of which T. ater and T. inornatus are members, but differs from 
all in the very much larger number of scale rows. 
Typhlops longicauda sp. nov, Plate I, fig. 1. 
Type. — No. R 99, E. H. Taylor collection; collected at Buna- 
wan, Agusan, Mindanao, July 15, 1913, by E. H. Taylor. 
Description of type. — Head rather broader than neck, broadly 
oval in outline; snout with a sharp horizontal cutting edge, 
moderately projecting, not or but scarcely hooked in profile; 
rostral not as wide below as above, somewhat narrowed between 
nostrils, and failing to reach level of eye by more than one-half 
the depth of prefrontal ; the latter wider than deep, larger than 
frontal, the suture formed with it larger than that with rostral 
which is only about one-fifth its width; frontal about as wide 
as deep, equal to the parietals which are about the size of the 
body scales and scarcely differentiated from them ; interparietal 
somewhat larger than frontal; the supraocular diagonal, the 
lower point reaching the anterior level of eye, but failing to 
reach the horizontal level by a distance equal to its distance 
from nasal; two nasals, the anterior very small, the suture di- 
viding them arises from first interlabial suture; preocular nar- 
rower and much shorter than ocular, in contact with two labials 
below ; ocular large, with a slight, rounded prominence over eye ; 
eye and pupil distinct; four postoculars between parietal and 
fourth labial; four labials, first and second smallest, subequal 
in size ; third more than twice as large as second and about one- 
half of fourth ; scales in 26 rows ; about 430 scales in a longi- 
tudinal line to above vent; 40 scales in a row on underside of 
tail. 
Color in life. — Above light yellowish brown, gradually be- 
coming lighter below. Head lighter ; laterally a distinct, broadly 
rectangular, lighter spot, including the eye and reaching the 
mouth. Each ventral scale has a regular darker brown area. 
Measurements of Typhlops longicauda sp. nov. 
Total length (mm.) 
340 
Tail (mm.) 
34.5 
Width of head (mm.) 
5.5 
Width of body (mm.) 
6 
Width of tail (mm.) 
4.75 
Body width in length (times) 
56.6 
Tail width in tail length (times) 
7.2 
Remarks.— TMs species has a very marked, apparently normal, 
enlargement of the pelvic region, which suggests a greater de- 
