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RECORns OF THE S.A. Museum 



very narrow, only half of the width of the nasal; diameter of body 63 to 122 

 times in its lencjth. 



Colours. Ivor\-. tinjjecl witli hrown al)0\e. beak yellow, head, foreneck and 

 tail brown, the last black in some sjiecimens. 



Lriii/th. 333 mm., longest seen 405 mm. 



Type. In the National Museum, Melbourne, No. R. 7102. Siiecimens also 

 in the Queensland and South Au'-tralian Museums. 



Raitf/c. ( )f the four examples known, one is from Alarble Bar. North- 

 Western .\ustralia. and a second from (iregory Downs. Oueensland : the localities 

 of the other two are unknown. 



Kciiuu-ks. This extraordinary snake exhibits some characters of 7'. kciitl. 

 but differs from that species in having the nasal cleft in contact with the first 

 labial, and its consequent contiguity to the rostral, by the strongly hooked beak, 

 and in haxMng the rostral bel(5w broader than long. 



TYPHLOPS PROXIMUS Waite. 



Typhlops pro.viiiiiis Waite, Rec. .\.usl. Mus. ii, li^i)^, p. ('O, pi. xv. figs. 3 and 4: 

 and Australian Snakes, iSc)8, pi. i. Ilouleng. Cat. .Snakes Rrit. Mus. iii, 

 1896, p. 588. Lonnb. and Anders. \"et. Akad. Handl. Iii. 1915, p. 7. 



Tvplilops nigrcscens McCoy, Prod. Zool. \'ict. dec. xi, 1885, \>\. 103 (not Gray). 



Chart No. 1 and fig. 8. 

 Nasal cleft to first labial ; scales in 20 rows. 



Head somewhat produced, tumid at the nasals; snout |)rominent, obtusely 

 angular; nostrils inferior, the cleft a little nearer to the rostral than to the 



Fig. S. Head of T. proxiiniis_ 



preocular, extending well on to the upper surface; rostral markedly swollen, 

 more than half the width of the head, reaching to, or nearly to, the le\'el of the 

 eyes, the lowei' pail a^ br(.)ad as long. Diameter of body 25 to 40 times in its 

 length. 



