100 ATJSTEALLiN SNAKES. 



APPENDIX. 



The followdng five new species are enumerated by Dr. Giinther, in his valuable " Eecord of 



Zoological Literature": — 



TlTPHIiOPS.* 



Ttphlops GiJNTHESi. (Peters.) 



Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865, p. 259, fig. 1. From Cape York. 



Ttphlops wiedii. (Peters.) 



L.c, 1867, p. 24. From Brisbane. 



TrpHLOPS (OnycliocepliaJus) ungiiirosteis. (Peters.) 

 h.c., 1867, p. 708, fig. 3. From Queensland. 



PSBTJIDBOHIS. 



PsEtJDECHis SCUTELLATUS. (Peters.) 



Moiiai.9ber, IS67, p. 710. From Eockhampton. 



h:opijOcepii-a.ltjs 



HoPLOCEPHALrS MACULATUS. (Steiiid.) 

 Novara, Sept., p. 81, tab. 3. 



HYIDEOPHIIS. 



Htbeophis stokesii ? (Gray.) 



Capt. Edwards lias presented a very large Sea Snake, of a uniform black color, wbich 

 is fully as large as the specimen measured by Dr. Giinther, viz., about 5 feet long, 5 inches 

 high, and 11 inches in circumference. The specimen was captured on the North Coast. 



* Professor Peters considers — 



Typhlops australis (Gray), and 



preissi (Jan J, as identical ; and also, 



ni^escens (Gray J, 



polygranimicus (tichleij), 



rUpiiellii (Jan), 



temmincltii (Jan), a.s one and tlie same species. 



