BY EDGAR R. WAITE. 11 



Hah. — Mowen, Central Railway, Queensland. One example. 



Tyjye. — In the Queensland Museum. No. D 4432. 



The peculiarity of the nasal fissure not touching the labials 

 distinguishes T. diversus from all other Australian forms, and 

 the only described species with which it might be confounded is 

 T. braminus, Daud.* It differs from this species in having the 

 nasal incompletely divided, the head more depressed, the rostral 

 of greater width and of different shape, and the body of more 

 slender form. 



I am enabled to describe and figure this interesting species 

 owing to the kindness of Mr. C. W. De Vis, who has placed in 

 my hands the whole of the Australian TyiMopidce in the Queens- 

 land Museum. 



6. Typhlops unguirostris, Peters, and T. appinis, Boulenger. 



As previously mentioned, I have received a valuable collection 

 of Australian Typhlopidce for study and determination from the 

 Queensland Museum, kindly sent to me by the Curator, Mr. C. 

 W. De Vis. An examination of this collection placed me in a 

 position to understand the discrepancies which, since the publica- 

 tion of the British Museum Catalogue,! I saw existed in either 

 the descriptions or the figures of the species above-named. 



In the collection are two examples which I identify as T. ungui- 

 rostris.\ In both these specimens the nasal fissure is in contact 

 with the first labial, and although Peters does not mention this, 

 his figure shows very clearly that such is the case in the type 

 specimen. 



In the British Museum Catalogue, Boulenger remarks of this 

 species that the nasal cleft proceeds from the second labial. This, 



* T. accendens, Jan, has similar characters, but differs in having twenty- 

 two rows of scales round the body. 



+ Boulenger, Cat. of Snakes in B.M. Vol. i. p. 49. 

 + Peters, Monatsb. d. K. Akad d. W. Berlin, 1S67, p. 708, f. 3. 



