12 Rept. 
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
Typhlopidjs. 
Typhlops inornatu8 , n. sp., Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (6) i, p. 344, New 
Guinea. T. ( Onychocephulus ) congicus , Bttg., described and figured by 
Biettger, Ber, Senck. Ges. 1888, p. 44, pi. i, fig. 5. 
Uropeltid^j. 
Silybura nilgherriensis , var. picta , Bedd. : notes by G. E. Mason, Ann. 
N. H (6) i, p. 185. S. phipsonii , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 184, Bombay Ghats. 
Boid^j. 
Oharina brachyops , n. sp., Cope, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. xi, p. 88, pi. xxxvi, 
fig. 1, Point Reyes, California. 
Eryx jaculus, L. : the specimens from Transcaspia, Afghanistan, and 
Northern Persia, belong to a distinct variety, miliaris , Pall. ; Bcettger, 
Zool. Jahrb. iii, p. 938. E.jayakari , u. sp., Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (G) 
ii, p. 508, Muscat, Arabia. 
Ungalia moreletii, Bocourt, figured by Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Kept, 
pi. xlii, fig. 5. 
Tropklophia conjunctus, n. sp., J. G. Fischer, JB. Ilamb. v, p. 31, pi. iii, 
fig. 5, San Domingo. 
Chilabothrus maculatus, p. 33, pi. iii, fig. 7, and gracilis , p. 35, pi. iii, 
fig. 8, n. spp., id. t. c., San Domingo 
Pelophilus madagascariensis , D. & B. : notes on embryos, by Mocquard, 
Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) xii, p. 34. 
Python anchietce , n. sp., Barboza du Bocage, J. Sci. Lisb. xii, p. 87 
[1887], Benguella. 
Paltvopython , Rochebr., = Paleryx , Ow. (foss.) ; Lydekker, Geol. 
Mag. (3) v, p. 112. 
PaUEOPHIIDJ}. 
Notes by Lydekker, Geol. Mag. (3) v, pp. 112 & 113. 
CoLUBRIDiE. 
Rhinocolamus i n. g. ( Calamar .). Body elongate, cylindrical, of uniform 
thickness throughout ; head small, not distinct from neck, narrow and 
tapering ; tail rather short, obtuse ; eye very small ; cleft of mouth 
narrow, with feeble jaws; scales smooth, in 17 rows ; subcaudals paired ; 
rostral shield wedge-shaped ; two pairs of frontals, the posterior replacing 
a loreal and anteocular ; nasal single, but with a groove below the 
narrow nostril ; maxillary armed with a few comparatively strong teeth, 
the two hindmost of which are enlarged and grooved. R. dimidiatus , 
n. sp. Gunther, Ann. N. H. (6) i, p. 322, pi. xix, fig. c, Mpwapwa, E. 
Africa. 
Calamelaps miolepis. n. sp., id. t. c. p. 323, Lake Nyassa. 
