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tTNDESCRIBED REPTILES AND FISHES — OGILBY. 



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On some UNDESCRIBED REPTILES and FISHES prom 

 AUSTRALIA. 



By J. Douglas Ogilby. 



Typhlops curtus, sp. nov. 



Habit stout. Snout obtusely rounded, and moderately pro- 

 minent ; nostrils inferior Rostral narrow, its upper portion 

 three and two-thirds in the width of the head, extending to 

 between the anterior margins of the eyes ; nasal incompletely 

 divided, the cleft originating above the first labial, forming a 

 suture with the prefrontal ; preocular smaller than the ocular. 

 Eye distinct. Prefrontal very large, much larger than the supra- 

 oculars ; frontal and parietals not larger than the body-scales. 

 Four upper labials. Diameter of body twenty-four times in the 

 total length. Tail longer than broad, ending in a strong, short, 

 conical spine, which scarcely projects beyond the surrounding 

 scales. Twenty-three series of scales round the middle of the 

 body, the dorsals and laterals smooth, the abdominals con- 

 spicuously raised along the median line, with numerous faint 

 carinations on the basal half, and with the tips free. 



Colors. — Pale reddish-brown above, each scale broadly margined 

 with gray ; head-shields darker, chestnut-brown with a yellow 

 margin ; lower surfaces yellow. 



Dimensions. 

 Total length 

 Head . . . 

 Width of head 

 Body ... 

 Tail ... 

 Breadth of tail 



Habitat. — Walsh River, Gulf of Carpentaria. 



Type. — In the Australian Museum, presented by E. G. Braddon, 

 Esq. Reg. No. R. 1132. 



Hoplocephalus suboccipitalis, sp. nov. 



Body moderate. Head depressed, rather small. Eye of 

 moderate size, its diameter rather more than half the length of 

 the snout, with rounded pupil ; supraciliary ridge but little 

 developed. The height of the rostral is three-fourths of its 

 breadth, its upper margin rounded, just visible from above ; 

 length of the frontonasals five-sevenths of that of the prefrontals, 



