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Records of the S.A. Museum 



locality; another from "North Queensland"; one from Broome, Kimberley Divi- 

 sion, North-western Australia ; another from Norseman, inland from Esperance 

 Bay. Southern-western Australia; and the fifth from the Mallee districts of 

 Victoria. 



Remarks. The colour markings arc quite characteristic, and the snout is 

 blunter than in any other Australian species. The completely divided nasal dis- 

 tinguishes it from 7". iciccfii. 



TYPHLOPS WIEDII Peters. 



Typhlops -a'icdii Peters, Mon. Akad. Berk 1S67, p. 24. Bouleng. Cat. Snakes. 



Brit. Mus. i, 1893, p. 36. W'aite. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ( j), ix, i8()4. 



p. 13, pi. i, figs. 7-9. Boettg. in Scmon. Zool. Forschr. v, 1894. p. 117. 



Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. xxxix, 1901. p. 1 1. 

 Tvphlops Iciicoproctus Bouleng. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (0), iv, 1889, p. 361, and 



Cat. Snakes, Brit. Mus. i, 1893. p. 20, pi. i. fig. 6. 



Chart No. 6 and fig. \". 



Fig. 17. Head of 7". wicdii 



Nasal cleft to second labial ; scales in 20 rows. 



Head obtuse; snout bluntly rounded; nostrils inferior, sub-median, the cleft 

 produced well on to the upper surface of the head ; rostral heart-shaped, about 

 half the width of the head, widest medially, extending to the le\el of the eyes ; the 

 lower part broader than long: diameter of body ^^ to 7(1 times in its length. 



Lcnijtii. 295 mm. 



I'vpc. In the Berlin Museum, from Brisbane, Queensland. 



Raiii/c. New (iuinea. Torres Strait (Murray and Darnley Islands), Queens- 

 land. New .South Wales. X'ictoria, Northern and South-western parts of Western 

 ;\iislr;ilia : not vet known from the Norlhern Territor\' or .^onth Australia. 



