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Show 1879.] BATRACHIANS FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 77 DRACO ORNATUS, Gray. Dinagat Island, South Negros. DRACO BIMACULATUS, Gthr. Dinagat Island. DRACO CORNUTUS, Gthr. Placer. DRACO SPILOPTERUS, Wiegm. South Negros. Snakes. CALAMARIA GERVAISII, D. & B. South Negros. RHABDOSOMA MODESTUM, D. & B. Dinagat Island. TYPHLOGEOPHIS, g. n., Calamar. Body cylindrical; tail short; head of moderate length, depressed, not wider than the neck. Eye externally not visible. Shields of the upper side of the head normal; nasal, loreal, ante- and post-orbitals absent. Scales smooth, in fifteen series ; anal entire; subcaudals paired. Maxillary and palatine teeth equal in length ; none grooved. This remarkable Snake reminds us, by the want of development of the eye and nasal shield, of Calamaria (Typhlocalamus) gracillima, from which it differs in the presence of two frontal shields. TYPHLOGEOPHIS BREVIS, sp. n. The anterior frontals are rather small, only about one third the size of the posteriors. Vertical small, six-sided, as broad as long, with an obtuse angle in front, and a right angle behind. Occipitals as long as the vertical and frontals together. Four upper labials, of which the two anterior form sutures with the frontals, the third with the supraorbital, and the fourth with the occipital. A large shield in the angle formed by the occipital and last upper labial. Ventrals 154 ; subcaudals (?). Uniform brownisb, the lateral scales and the ventral scutes with lighter margins. A single specimen is in the collection; it is 12 inches long, the head measuring 4| lines. No label indicating its locality is attached to it; but it comes either from North Mindanao or Dinagat Island. Unfortunately, the extremity of the snout has been allowed to dry and is considerably shrunk ; also the tail is somewhat mutilated. OLIGODON MODESTUS, Gthr. South Negros. The supposition that this might be a Ceylonese species proves to be incorrect. [Luzon.] [Luzon.] [Luzon.] [Luzon.] |