PAPERS READ. 



NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN TYPHLOPIDM. 



By Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



(PiMished by j)e7-mission of the Trustees.) 



(Plate I.) 



*4. TypHLOPS BATiLLUs, sp.nov. 

 (PL I. figs. 1-3.) 



Habit slender and of moderately even thickness. Snout promi- 

 nent, much depressed and shovel-shaped. Head shields granulated 

 above and below. Rostral half the width of the head, extending 

 almost to the level of the eyes, widest in front, the portion visible 

 from beneath as broad as long ; nasal completely divided, the 

 fissure much curved and extending from the second labial ; nos- 

 trils lateral, close to the rostral ; preocular smaller than the 

 ocular, in contact with the second and third labials. Eye very 

 distinct. Internasal, supraoculars, and parietals larger than the 

 scales on the body. Four upper labials. Diameter of the middle 

 of the body fifty-three times in the total length. Tail longer than 

 broad, terminating in a blunt spine. Twenty-four scales round 

 the body. 



Colours. — In spirits, tawny above, the edges of the scales forming 

 noticeable longitudinal lines, lighter beneath. 



Dimetzsions. 

 Total length 320 mm. Length of head 5 mm. 



Width of head 5 mm. Width of body 6 mm. 



Length of tail 7 mm. Width of tail 5 mm. 



Hab. — Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. One example. 



* Articles 1-3 were published in the Records of the Australian Museum, 

 ii. pp. 57-62. 



