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Diameter of body 37 to 50 times in the total length; 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. 
Typhlops Blanfordit. 
Typhlops Eschrichtit (non Schleg.), 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; preeocular 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 
preocular and the ocular; prefrontal much enlarged, 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 Senafé, Abys- 
sinia. 
Typhlops affinis. 
Under this name I propose to designate a small Typhlops, 
170 millim. long, which has been regarded by Peters (Monatsb. 
Berl. Akad. 1867, p. 709) as the young of his 7’. 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.—Descriptions of two new Rhynchophorous Coleoptera 
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 Aptrocalus and a new Lhinoscapha. ‘There is also a 
