Waite — Review of Austkaliax Typhlopidae 



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Colours. ( )ccasional examples show indication of a dark niari< on each side 

 of the \ent. a.^ in 7". polv(/niiiiiiiiciis. 



l.ciKjtb. 700 mm. 



Ty/^c. In tile Australian Museum. Sydney. Xo. '141 i. 



Raiujc. Uueensland. soutiiwarcl from Lat. [7 (leg. 5 min. S. Common in 

 New South Wales and Northern A'ictoria. 



Remarks. L'nder the name "T. ntgrcsccns" AlcCoy writes of this species: 

 "These specimens were dug out of an ant-hill in which they dwelt in the midst 

 of the abundant insect food suited to them." Lonnberg and Andersson remark of 

 a specimen taken at Malanda, near Cairns, that it "lives below rotten stumps in 

 the jungle." 



TYPHLOPS POLYGRAMMICUS Schlegel. 



Typlilof^s polyi/raiiiiiiicKs Schleg. Abbild. Amiihili. 1S44. p. 40. pi. xxxii, figs. 



35-38. Dam. et Bib. Erpet. Gen. vi. 1844, p. 30i. Jan. Icon. Gen. 1864, 



p. 13, liv. 3, pis. iv and v. fig. g. Peters, Mon. Akad. Berl. 1865, p. 262. 



Bouleng. Cat. Snakes. Brit. Mus. i. i8(j3, p. 34, and iii. 1896, p. 586. Waite, 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. Wales (2). ix, 1894, p. 13. 

 Aiiilios niijri-scciis Gray, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus.. 1845. P- '35- 

 .irf/yropliis poh'i/raiiiniiciis Gray. loc. cit. p. 138. 

 Typhlops ni(/rcsrciis Jan, up. cit. p. 13, liv. 9. pi. i, fig i. Waite, Rec. Aust. Mus. 



ii, 1893, pi. XV, figs. I. 2, 3. 

 Typlilops ruppcUi Jan. op. fit. p. 14, liv. 14. pi. i. fig. 2. Waite. Rec. Aust. Mus. 



/()(•. cit. p. 59. pi. XV. tig. 6 (tail ). 

 Tvplilops tciiiiiiiiickii Jan, op. cit. p. 14, liv. 3, pi. iii and iv, fig. 6. Bouleng. 



op. cit. i, 1893. p. 29. 



Fig. 9. Head of T. polygraiiiiiiicus. 



'J'yphlops rc(/iiiac Bouleng. .Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), iv, 1889, p. 362. and Cat. 

 Snakes. Brit. Mu>. i. 1893. p. 35, pi. iii, fig. i. 



Chart No. 2 and fig. 9. 



Nasal cleft to first labial; scales in 22 rows. 



