BREVIORA Miasenainii of Comparsitive Zoology Cambridge, Mass. December 21, 1964 Number 211 A NEW SPECIES OF THE SNAKE LEPTOTYPHLOPS FROM COLOMBIA By Benjamin Shreve In a shipment of snakes sent to me for identificaton by Hermano Niceforo Maria of the Instituto de La Salle of Bogota, Colombia, one appears to represent an undescribed species. An-other specimen, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology collec-tion, is apparently of the same species. Thanks are due the following individuals for lending compara-tive material from the collections in their charge : Mr. Charles M. Bogert of the American Museum of Natural Histoiy (AMNH), Dr. Doris M. Cochran of the United States National Museum (USNM), Miss Alice G. C. Grandison of the British Museum (Natural History) (BMNH), and Dr. William Duell-man of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History (UKMNH). The new snake will be given a name suggested by the exceed-ingly low dorsal scale count. Leptotyphlops brevissima sp. nov. Holotype. Museo del Instituto de La Salle No. 1311, from Florencia, Caqueta, Colombia, collected by Niceforo Maria Feb-ruary 10, 1951. Paratype. MCZ No. 38950 (taken from the stomach of Micniriis tnipartitus (Dumeril, Dumeril and Bibron), MCZ No. 21988, from Sonson, Antioquia, Colombia, collected by Niceforo Maria in 1925. This specimen has about a third of the head miss-ing on the right side. Diagnosis. Apparently most closely related to Leptotyphlops macrolepis (Peters) and L. anthracina Bailey, from which it differs in a lower dorsal and subcaudal count (Table 1), and in
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