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Records of the S.A. Museum 



Nasal cleft to second labial ; scales in 22 rows. 



Head rounded: snout rounded: nostrils inferior, the cleft a little nearer to 

 the rostral than to the jireocular, produced far on to the upper surface of the 

 head : rostral narrow, one-third the width of the head, extending almost to the 

 level of the eyes: the lower part as broad as long: diameter of body 34 to 43 

 limes in its length. 



Fifj. 19. Head of T. torrcsitiiiiis. 



Lciujtii. 400 mm. 



Type. In the British Museum, from Murray Island. Torres Strait. 



Ramjc. Torres Strait, east coast of Queensland, Dunk Island. 



Remarks. This species differs from T. aiistralis by its rounded snout and 



narrow rostral, and the condition of the nasal cleft which is projected far on to 



the upper part of the head. Boulenger states that the portion of the rostral 



visible from below is "half as broad as long" : none of our specimens exhibits this 



proportion, nor indeed does the original figure agree with the description in this 



respect. 



TYPHLOPS AUSTRALIS Gray. 



Anilios aitstialis Gray. Cat. Lizards, Brit. Mus. 1845. p. 135. 



Typhlops preissi Jan, Icon. Gen. 1860, p. 15, liv. 1, pi. v, fig. 1. 



Onychocephalus bicolor Peters. j\Ion. Akad. Berl. i860, p. 81. 



Typhlops bicolor Jan. op. cit. 1864, p. 31. liv. 4. pi. iv and v. fig. 3. Bouleng. Cat. 



Snakes. Brit. Mus. i, 1893, p. 48. 

 Typhlops aiistralis Peters, op. cit. 1865. ]). 262, fig. 3. Bouleng. op. cit. p. 35. 



Waite, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. xxi, 1897, p. 26. Werner, Fauna Siidwest- 



Aust. ii. 1909, p. 256. 

 Typhlops sp. Lonnberg and Andersson, \'et. Akad. Handl. Hi, No. 3, 1913, p. 1_'. 

 Chart No. 8. and fig. 20. 



.Nasal cleft to second labial ; scales in 22 rows. 



Head rounded, with slightly tumid nasals: snout sub-angular: nostrils in- 

 ferior, the cleft median, scarcely produced beyond the nostril : rostral large, heart- 



