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Diameter of body 37 to 50 times in the total Icngtli ; tail a 

 little longer than broad, ending in a spine. 22 scales round 

 the body. Greyish olive above, whitish inferiorly. 



Three specimens, the largest 410 millim. long, from 

 Queensland, collected by Colonel Beddome. 



Typldops Blanfordii. 

 Ti/phlops JEschrichtit (non Sclileg.), Blanf. Geol. and Zool. Abyss, p. 457. 



Snout very prominent, depressed, rounded, with inferior 

 nostrils. Rostral large, more than half the width of the head, 

 extending to between the eyes, the portion visible from below 

 nearly as long as broad ; nasal semidivided, the cleft pro- 

 ceeding from the first labial ; prajocular present, much nar- 

 rower than the nasal or the ocular, in contact with the second 

 and third labials ; eye distinct, below the suture between the 

 preeocular and the ocular ; prefrontal much enharged, supra- 

 oculars and parietals feebly enlarged ; four upper labials. 

 Diameter of body 40 times in the total length ; tail broader 

 than long, ending in a spine. 30 scales round the body. 

 Olive-grey, basal half of each dorsal scale blackish ; a narrow 

 whitish stripe along the middle of the lower surface. 



A single specimen, 320 millim. long, from Senafe, Abys- 

 sinia. 



Typhhps affinis. 



Under this name I propose to designate a small TyphlopSj 

 170 millim. long, which has been regarded by Peters (Monatsb. 

 Berl. Akad. 1867, p. 709) as the young of his T. unguirostris^ 

 with which it agrees in every respect except in having only 

 18 scales round the body (instead of 22 or 24) and a some- 

 what longer tail. 



Queensland. 



XLIX. — Descri2)tions of two new Rhynchophorous CoJeoptera 

 from the Louisiade Archipelago. By Charles O. Water- 

 house. 



A SMALL series of Coleoptera from the Louisiade Archipelago 

 has recently been presented to the British Museum by Mr. 

 Basil Thomson. Among them is a new species of Mr. Pascoe's 

 genus Apirocalus and a new liJdnoscapha. There is also a 



