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Australia will serve, the specimen imder review would seem to 

 be referrable ratter to iV^. Geoff roiji of West Australia than to 

 N. Gouldii of New South AVales. 



XoTES OX South Australtax Snakes. 



1. Specimens of a blind snake have been taken at Ardrossan 

 by Mr. Tepper, and at Grolden Grove by Prof. Tate. They 

 belong presumably to Typldops bituherculatus, Peters, Monatsber. 

 Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1865, which is said by that author to 

 inhabit S. Australia. The species was only known by name to 

 Krefft, and as we cannot refer to any description of it the 

 identification is not certain. The species is quite harmless, 

 and from its habit of burrowing among tussocks of cyperids 

 or in the rotten wood in search of its prey — the white ant — it 

 may have been overlooked, and considered rarer than it 

 really is. Mr. Tepper states that he has met with the species, 

 active at night, at Monarto and New Mecklenburg. 



2. Vermicdla aiinnlata. — This, or an allied species, inhabits 

 the scrub six miles north-east from Kadina, on the authority 

 of Mr. Anthony, from whom specimens have been received. 

 The species is recorded from South Australia by Krefft, but 

 the Kadina snake, from its much smaller size and regularity of 

 alternating bright yellow and black bands, may be a variety 

 or an allied species. 



3. IIoj)locephaJus spccfahilis, Kref£t, '' The Snakes of Aus- 

 tralia." — This pretty and easily-recognisable species was 

 founded on a specimen taken at Port Lincoln by Mr. Masters ; 

 another example was captured by Prof. E. Tate, near Ardrossan 

 in Xovember, 1879. 



Notes on Soutk Australtax LrzAiiDs. 



Sihihosannis Stokesi, Gray. — This very fine lizard is described 

 and figured in Stokes' Discoveries in Australia, vol. L, p. 498, 

 plate i., and the locality assigned to it is A\^estern Australia. 

 As there is no published record of its having been found in 

 South Australia, Mr. Rogers' specimens, which were obtained 

 near Port Augusta, must be considered to be the first found in 

 om* province, although Prof. Tate has some recollection of 

 having seen the creature on the Bunda Plateau. 



Moloch horrid Hs. — Examples of this species, taken at Ooldea, 

 in the desert interior, north from l^^owler's Bay, have been 

 forvv'arded by Mrs. A. Eichards. This ucav locality for it is 

 about equi-distant from Western Australia and Port Augusta, 

 where o)ily it had previously been known to occur. 



