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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- 
oculars, 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 
pracanals; tail thick, dark-brown above, white beneath, sides white with 
longitudinal series of brown spots corresponding to the scales. 
Total length, 152 mm. ; head, 11 mm. ; width of head, 7 mm. ; fore 
limb, 4 mm. ; hind limb, 6mm.; tail (regenerated), 65 mm. 
A single specimen from Semangko Pass, Sdangor-Pahang boundary. 1,700 feet. 
Very closely allied to L. larutense , Blgr.,* 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 novac-guineae, D. & B. 
An embryo from Bukit Besar. 
New to the Malay Peninsula. Known from New Guinea, the Moluccas, 
Lombok, Celebes, Sumatra, and the Nieohars. 
i 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. 1 
OPHIDIA 
TYPHLOPIDAE 
51. Typhlops braminus, Daud. 
Bukit Besar and Selangor. 
52. Typhlops nigroalbus, D. & B. 
Bukit Besar, Sai Kau, and Jalor, 
* The distribution of the Typhlopldae in the State of Jalor is somewhat 
sporadic, but appears to coincide with that of burrowing lizards, such as 
Lygosoma chafades , and of the burrowing Amphibian, Ichthopbys gluthwsus. 
For instance, these forms are exceedingly rare, if they occur at all, in the 
1, Ann. and Mag. N, H . (7) v, 1900, p, 306- 
