22 Records ok the S.A. Museum 



TYPHLOPS KENTI Boulenger. 



Typhliips kciiti I'xjulcn.i;., Ann. Mag. Nat. Mist. ( S ) , .\i\-, 1914, p. 482. 

 Chart No. 9 and fig. 12. 



Nasal cleft to second labial : scales in icS rows. 



Head greatly produced, sub-acute; snout acute, with lower edge horizontal; 

 nostrils inferior, the cleft nearer to the preocular than to the rostral which it 

 touciies in front of the nostril, (li\iding the nasal ; rostral a little more than half 



Fig. 1^, Head of 1\ hciiti 



the width of the hea<l. widest in its front half, extending to the level of the eyes, 

 the lower part as broad as long, preocular narrower than the nasal or the ocular ; 

 diameter of body 55 to 102 times in its length. 



Colours. Pale brown above, yellow beneath ; in three specimens the tail is 

 black, in one other the head is also black. 



Length. 275 mm. 



Type. In the British Museum, from Northern Queensland. 



Range. Four specimens examined, one each from King's Sound and ISroome. 

 Kimlierley Division, and ^'anyereddy Station, near Ashburton River, North- 

 western Australia; one from "Western Australia." 



Remarks. A note on the differences between T. kenti and 7". r/ryhus will be 

 found under the entry of the latter species. 



TYPHLOPS AFFINIS Boulenger. 



Typlilops affiiiis Houleng.. .\nn. Mag. Nat. Hist. ( f > ) iv, 1889, p, 363, Cat. Snakes 



Brit. Mus. i, 18(^3. p. ^f). \)\. iii, lig. 3, and Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 



(2) ix. 1894, p. 719. Waite, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S, Wales, (2) ix, 1894. 



p. II. 



Chart No. 4 and hg. 13. 



Nasal cleft to second laliial ; scales in iS rows. 



