DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BLIND SNAKE from the 

 SOLOMON ISLANDS, 



With a list ok sPtxiKs from thi AUSTRO-MALAVAN anf) I'OLYNF.SIAN 

 SUB-RKGIONS. 



Bv F.DGAR R. WAITF,, F.L.S., DiRixrok S.A. Mvskum. 



FiR. 25. 

 Of tlie species catalogued in llie preceding pai>ei". two only are recorded as 

 occurring beyond the confines of Australia proper: these are T. pol\iiraiiiiuiciis 

 and T. zciedii. 



Many species, on the other hand, lia\e been described from the Australian 

 Region, outside the limits of the Continent. Lacking the necessary siiecimens and 

 literature, no attempt has been made to critically study these forms ; they are 

 therefore merely listed geograpliicalh' with their recorded distril)ution within the 

 sub-regions. A species from the Solomon Islands proves to be new and may be 

 described as follows : 



TYPHLOPS INFRALABIALIS sp. nov. 



Nasal cleft to the first labial, scales in 26 rows. 



Habit moderate ; head and snout acute : rostral short and narrow, extending 

 to two-thirds its distance from the le\el of the eyes; nostril sub-lateral, nearer the 

 rostral than to the anterior preocular. its cleft does not quite reach the rostral and 

 extends to the hinder edge of the first laliial : no supranasals : a large i^reocular 

 which however does not touch the ocular: the normal position of the ocular is 



Head (if 7' iiifnilahuil: 



re])resented by four scales ; a small ocular, posterior preocular, subocular, and 

 >upralabial, the latter wedged in between the third and fourth labials : four u])per 



