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what respects it differs from 7". australis. witli whicli it is associalLMl in the scheme 

 here adopted, nor can I identify with the description, any specimen I ha\e handled. 

 In order to remedy this deficiency I wrote to Dr. Boulenger on November 22 

 hist, l)nt I greatly fear that either my letter or his reply has been lost as the result 

 of sinking, by our enemies, of one of the \essels carrying homeward or outward 

 mails. 



TYPHLOPS BATILLUS Waite. 



Tvplilops iHitilhis \\'aite, I'roc, Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales. (2) i.\, 1894, p. 9, pi. i, 

 figs. 1-3. Bouleng. Cat. Snakes, Brit. Mus. iii, 1896, p. 585. 



Chart No. 9, and fig. 21. 

 Nasal cleft to second labial : scales in 24 rows. 



Fig. Jl 



Head of T. h„tiU„s 



Head sub-acute, nuich produced; snout acutely rounded; nostrils lateral, 

 close to the rostral to which the cleft is continued, dividing the nasal ; rostral very 

 long, one-third longer than broad, extending to the level of the eyes, widest in 

 front, its width nearly half that of the head, the lower part broader than long; 

 diameter of body 53 times in its length. 



Length. 320 mm. 



T\'pr. In the Macleay Aluseum, Sydney, from Wagga W'agga, New South 

 Wales. 



Kemaiks. The type is still the only specimen known, and this is the only 

 .species having the peculiar shovel-shaped head. 



TYPHLOPS LABIALIS sp. nov. 



Not charted, fig. 22. 

 Nasal cleft to second labial ; scales in 24 rows. 



Head very flat, rounded; snout evenl}- rounded: nostrils lateral, the cleft 

 sub-median, completely dividing the nasal; rostral o\ate, rather narrow, a little 



