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Records of the S.A. Museum 



Head rounded; snout rounded; nostrils inferior, the cleft median, extending 

 on to tile upper surface; rostral nearly lialf tile width of the head, reaching 

 nearly to the le\el of the eyes, or not so far, the lower part a little longer than 

 hroad ; diameter of body 36 to 59 times in its length. 



Colours. A hrown or lilack hlotcli is freipiently present on each side of the 

 tail, above and behiml the \ent. 



I.ciii/tli. 717 inni. 



Type. In the Le\den Aluseuni. from Timor, 



Raiu/c. Queensland, common in New South \\ ales and \'ictoria. 



Remarks. The ty])e of T. polvf/raniiiiiciis was taken in Timor, I am not 

 fully satisfied that Australian examples are of the same s])ecies. if otherwise the 

 name 7". iii(jrcscciis should be used, < )ur specimens from yueensland are. with 

 one exception, unlocalized. and their geographical position cannot therefore be 

 charted. The characters assigned to 7". rcyiiiac come well within the variations to 

 which our examples are subject. 



TYPHLOPS UNGUIROSTRIS Peters. 



I'yplilops {Oiiyclioccpiuiliis) iiiujiiirostns I'eter--. Mon. .\kad. Berl. iSd/. p. 708. 



fig- 3- 

 Typhlops curvirostris I'eters, op. cit. 1X79. p. 77(1, hg. 5. Bouleng, Cat. Snakes, 



ISrit. AIus. i. 181)3. !>. 48. 

 Typhlops iiiu/nirostris Bouleng. (in part), op. cit. p. 49 and {ciiiciid.). iii. 1896, 



p. 5S9, also Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales (2). ix. 1894. p. 718. Waite. Proc. 



Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales (2). ix. 1894. p. 11. 



Chart No. 9 and fig, 10, 



Nasal cleft to first laljial ; scales in 24 rows. 



Head long, narrowed in front ; snout \er\- acute, the lower edge ^ub-horizon- 

 tal ; no.strils inferior, the cleft nearer to the rostral than to the preocular. pro- 



Fig. 10. Head of V, uiifiiiiru.tlns 



