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Head blunt ; snout (i1ilusi.-ly angular. lower edge sub-horizontal : nostrils 

 inferior, tiie cleft a little nearer to the rostral tlian to the preocular, produced to 

 the rostral, dividing the nasal ; rostral slightly more than half the width of the 

 head, contracted behind, reaching to the level of the eyes, the lower part much 

 broader than long; diameter of liody 48 to ^~ times in its length. 



Lciif/th. 206 mm. 



Tvpr. In the I!ritish Afuseum. from Queensland. 



Fig. IJ, Head of T affiui-i. 



Raiu/r. The three examides examined are laljelled respectively: "North 

 Queensland," "Ridsvold, nr. Gayndah, Queensland," and "Campbelltown, New 

 South Wales." Lonnberg and Andersson identified a specimen from Mallallah, 

 interior of Kimherley. North-west .Australia, found in the interior of a termites' 

 hill. 



Ri-inarks. The original description of this species is unsatisfactory, being 

 mainly comparati\e : the diagnosis of T. unyiiirostns. with which species it was 

 compared, was afterwards found to include two species. T. affiiiis is inter- 

 medins between T. gucnthcri and T. kenti. ditt'ering from the former in its com- 

 l)letely divided nasal, angular snout and heart-shaped rostral, and from the latter 

 in its blunt head, with less produced rostral and less acute snout. .Ml three 

 species are of slender habit with small heads. 



TYPHLOPS GUENTHERI Peters. 



T\plilof^s {Onychoccphaliis) guentheri Peters, Mon. Akad. Berl. 1865, p. 259, 



fig. 1. Bouleng. Cat. SnaJ<es, Rrit. Mus. i, 1893, P- 20. 

 Typhlops niijyicaitda Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 867, pi. xlix, fig. i. and 



Cat. .'-inakes, Brit. Mus. iii, 1896, p. 386. 



Ciiart No. 3 and fig. 14. 

 Nasal cleft to second labial ; scales in 18 rows. 



Head blunt; snout rounded; nostrils inferior, the cleft median, terminating 

 at the nostril; rostral half, or rather more than half the width of the head. 



