36 Records of the S.A. Museum 



labials and three supralabials : mandible A-shaped ; a small chin shield and a 

 series of xery iiarrnw labials liorderini^- the mouth ; diameter of body 52 times in 

 thi' lcnt;lli : tail as broad as Imi^'. endiiiij; in a '>]iine. 



Colours. In spirits, ]>ro\\n above and yellow below. 



I. en < /til. ,^i 5 nmi. 



7'\'/i('. In the Australian Museum, No. R. 4(101), from Malaita, .'^olomon 

 Islands. 



Remarks. The only s|iecies hitherto known from the Solomon Islands is 

 T. aliicnsis, also recorded from Fiji ( 1 ) ; that species, however, has the nasal 

 cleft in contact with the second labial and has only 22 rows of scales round the 

 body. No other species of the following list (having the nasal cleft in contact 

 with the first labial ) has more than 22 rows of scales. 



( )f the two numbers at the end of each of tiie following entries, the first 

 indicates the labial with which the nasal cleft is in contact and the second the 

 number of rows of scales round the body: the letters taking the place of numbers 

 in T. hrainiiius indicate that the nasal cleft is in contact with the ])reocular scale. 



The accomi)anying figure is drawn by Mr. Herbert AI. Hale. 



AL'STRO-MALAYA. 



Typhlops clhcrti Rou.x, Zool. Jabrb. xxx. 1911, p. 499. Loml)ok. [i. 22 



Typhi ops polygrammicus Schlegel. Abbild. Amphib. 1S44, p. 40, pi. 



xxxii, figs. 35-38. Timor. \\. 22 



Typhlops braminus Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept. vii, 1803, p. 279. Celebes. [;ir. 20 

 Typhlops conradi Peters, Mon. Akad. Berl. 1874, p. 162, fig. r. 



Celebes. [2. 18 

 Typhlops atcr Schlegel, Abbild. Amphib. 1844, p. 39, pi. x.xxii, figs. 



29-31. Moluccas. [2. iS 



Typhlops oUvacciis Cray. Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 1S45, p. 133. Moluccas, [i. 22 

 Typhlops flai'h'ciitcr I'eters, Mon. Akad. Berl. 1864, p. 271. Moluccas. [2. 22 

 7'vphlops bipartitiis .Sauvagc, Bull. Soc. Thiloni. (7). iii, 1879, p. 59. 



Moluccas. [2, 22 

 (Boulenger wrote "Tidore ( ?) Island, Northern New (juinea." 

 Tidore Island is adjacent to Ternate. ) 

 Txphlops kraalii Doria. .\nn. Mus. (ienova, \i, 1874, p. 347. |)1. xii. 



fig. f. Kei Islands. [2. 24-2^, 



'Typhlops iiiiiltilincntns Schlegel, .\bbild. .\nipliib. 1844, p. 40, i)l. xxxii. 



figs, 39-42. Papua and adjacent islands. |i. 20 



Typhlops wiedii Peters. Mon. Akad. Berl. 1867. p. 24. Papua, [2, 20 



(1) Waite, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, x.\ii. 1898, p. 695. 



