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FASCICULI MALATENSES 
praefrontals small ; frontal slightly longer than broad, broader than the supra- 
ocular region, in contact with the first and second supraoculars ; four supra- 
ocularSj six superciliaries ; fronto-parietals distinct ; interparietal longer than 
the fronto-parietals ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; first 
upper labials largest, fourth entering the orbit ; ear completely hidden ; twenty- 
two smooth scales round the middle of the body, equal ; a pair of enlarged 
praeanals ; tail thick, dark-brown above, white beneath, sides white with 
longitudinal series of brown spots corresponding to the scales. 
Total length, 152 mm. ; head, ii mm. ; width of head, 7 mm. ; fore 
limb, 4 mm. ; hind limb, 6 mm. ; tail (regenerated), 65 mm. 
A single specimen from Semangko Pass, Selangor-Pahang boundary. 2,700 feet. 
Very closely allied to h. larutense^ from Larut, Perak (3,000 
to 4,000 feet). Distinguished by the monodactyle hind limb, and the smaller 
number of scales round the body, viz., twenty-two instead of twenty-six. 
DIBAMIDAE 
50. Dibamus novae-guineae, D. & B. 
An embryo from Bukit Besar. 
New to the Malay Peninsula. Known from New Guinea, the Moluccas, 
Lombok, Celebes, Sumatra, and the Nicobars. 
‘ The egg, which was found by a native in a dead tree-trunk, was broad 
in proportion to its length, but not circular ; it had a brittle and highly 
calcareous shell.’ 
OPHIDIA 
TYPHLOPIDAE 
51. Typhlops braminus, Daud. 
Bukit Besar and Selangor. 
52. Typhlops nig^roalbus, D. & B. 
Bukit Besar, Sai Kau, and Jalor. 
‘ The distribution of the Typhlopidae in the State of Jalor is somewhat 
spDradic, but appears to coincide with that of burrowing lizards, such as 
Lygosoma chalcides^ and of the burrowing Amphibian, Ichthophys glutinosus. 
For instance, these forms are exceedingly rare, if they occur at all, in the 
I. Ann. and Mag. N. H. (7) v, 1900, p. 306. 
