Waite — Review of Austkalian Typhlopidae 27 



TYPHLOPS BITUBERCULATUS Peters. 



Oiivcliorcplnthis bitiibcrailatiis l'etcr>. Mon. Akail. Herl. iS()3, p. 2^^. and 1867, 



p. 708. fig. 4. 

 J'vhl'lops bitiibcrculatus Bouleng. Cat. Snakes, J'.rit. Alus. i, 1893. p. 48. Werner, 



Fauna Siidwest-Aust. ii, 1909, p. ^156. Waite, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. xli, 



191 7. ]>■ 435. figs. 1-3. 



Plate i. ehart No. 7, and fig, 18. 



Nasal cleft to second labial ; scales in 20 rows. 



Fig. 18. Head of '!'. hififbcixiilatiis. 



Head trilobed, the rostral and bulging nasals forming the lobes ; snout acutely 

 angular, the lower edge sub-horizontal ; nostrils inferior, nearer to the rostral 

 than to the preocular. the cleft produced slightly beyond the nostril : rostral pro- 

 duced in front, half the width of the head, extending nearly to the level of the 

 eves, the lower part slightly broader than long ; diameter of body 42 to 82 times in 

 its length, 



Lciitith. 450 mm. 



Type. In the Berlin Museum, from .\delaide, South Australia, 



Raiij/c. The whole of .Vustralia, the northern parts excepted, the most 

 northern localities being Bundaberg, Queensland ; Barrow's Creek, Central Aus- 

 tralia, and the Fortescue River, 'Western Australia, It is one of the commonest 

 S])ecies, occurring plentifully throughout the southern parts of the Continent, 



Rcinarks. — T. bititberculatHS is quite unmistakable, even when young, and is 

 the .\ustralian exami)le best illustrating "inferior" nostrils, 



TYPHLOPS TORRESIANUS Boulenger. 



'J'vplilops ton-csiaiiHS Bouleng. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6). iv, 1889, \>. 302. and 

 Cat. Snakes, Brit. Mus. i. 1893, P- 34- P'- "• ^g- 4- 

 Chart No. 4 and fig. 19. 



