24 Rr-:coRns of the S.A. Museum 



reaching- to the level of the eyes, sides sub-parallel, the lower ])art broader than 

 long-; diameter of body 4C1 to 80 times in its length. 



I'll; 14, Mead of T giuiifhcn 



Colours. Meacl and tail, brown or black, the colour, es]jecially that on the 

 head, absent in some specimens. 



I.cntjth. 315 mm. 



I'ypc. In the British Museum, from North .\ustralia. 



Raiujc. Known from DaU- River ( liritish Museum), Port Darwin, East 

 .\lligator River, all in the .Vnrthern Territory: and Marlile Bar. North-western 

 Australia. 



Remarks. From the other two species of this division with iS rows of 



scales, namely T. affiiiis an<l 7'. kciiti. this species may be recognized by the 



rounded snout, the incompletelv divided nasal and the (piadrangular-shaped 



rostral. 



TYPHLOPS PINGUIS Waite. 



T\phlops piiii/iiis ^^■aite, Trans. Roy. Soc. .S. .\ust. xxi, 1S97, p. 2^. jd. iii. 

 Chart No. 5 and fig. 15. 



Nasal cleft to second laldal ; scales in 20 rows. 



Head rounded, the nasals slightly tumid: snout obtusely angular: nostrils 

 inferior, meclian, the cleft jirocluced. but not on to the ui)per surface of the head; 



Fig. 15. Head of T. piiigiii 



