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plates. Scales smooth, cycloid, imbricate, those on the belly- 

 scarcely enlarged. No prseanal pores. 



The single species is confined to Australia. 



Aprasia pulchella, Gray. 



Aprasia pulchella., Gray, Cat., p. 68. 



Aprasia pulchella, Gray, Ann. and Mag. N. H. ii., 1839, p. 

 332, and in Grey's Trav. Austral, ii., pi. iv., fig. 2 ; Liitken, 

 Vidensk. Meddel., 1862, p. 300, pi. i., fig. 3 ; Giinther, Ann. and 

 Mag. N. H. (4), xii., 1873, p. 145; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., 

 pi. 161, tig. 1. 



Description. — " Head very small, with very prominent rounded 

 snout ; eyes well developed, with circular scaly rudimentary lid. 

 Body calamiform. Tail shorter than the body, of subequal 

 diameter throughout, its end obtuse, rounded. Rudiments of 

 hind limbs extremely small, hardly distinct. Rostral very high, 

 narrow, the portion seen from above the snout triangular ; nostril 

 pierced between the first labial and a very large nasal, which 

 forms a suture with its fellow on the snout ; a pair of large 

 prsefrontals, forming a suture with the second labial ; a large 

 hexagonal frontal, the posterior angle of which is rounded off; 

 four or five enlarged occipital scales, but no parietals ; a supra- 

 orbital ; a narrow praeorbital ; no loreal ; five or six upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the orbit ; mental large, 

 broadly trapezoid; two or three lower labials, anterior very large. 

 Twelve series of scales round the body. Three slightly enlarged 

 anal scales. Colour. — Yellowish or pinkish, with eight dark -brown 

 lines above following the longitudinal series of scales, or with 

 series of brown dots arranged in four widely separated longitu- 

 dinal series on the back and very crowded on the sides. 



Distribution. — Victoria: Portland, Lake Wallace (Melb. Mus.). 

 Range outside Victoria. — Western Australia (Brit. Mus.). 



