AUSTRALIAN SNAKES. 19 
Preiss’ Buinp Snake. Typhlops preissi. 
(Plate V, figs. 9, 9a.) 
Typhlops preissi, Jan, Icon., libr. i, pl. V, fig. 2. 
Scales in 22 rows. 
: Tail, 5 lines, being as long as broad. 
Total length, 17 inches 5 lines. 
Coloration, grey above, lighter below. Habitat, South-eastern 
Australia. The typical specimen is in the Museum at Leyden. 
Scumipr’s Buinp Snake. Typhlops bicolor. 
(Plate V, figs. 10, 13, 132.) 
Typhlops bicolor, Schmidt, Peters, Monatsber, der Berl. Akad., Wiss., 1860, pl. 81. 
Jan, Icon., libr. 4, pl. IV, V, £. 8. 
Seales in 22 rows. 
Total length, 27 inches 5 lines. 
Tail, 8 lines. 
Coloration, light brown above, yellowish white below. The typical 
specimen, obtained in the neighbourhood of Melbourne, is in the Hamburg 
Museum. 
FAMILY OF COLUBRIDES—COLUBRIDZ. 
The greater number of all the non-venomous snakes belongs to this 
family, but only two species are recorded from Australia; of these, 
one inhabits the far north, and is represented in the British Museum by a 
single individual. The Colubers do not show any peculiar distinguishing 
characters ; they are generally of a moderate length, with a full rounded 
body, well-proportioned head, distinct from the neck, and have the cleft of 
the mouth in the form of a curve. The palate and jaws are well supplied 
with teeth, but no fangs are produced. The subcaudal plates are two-rowed. 
CORON BLGA. 
Coronella, sp., Laurenti. 
Body cylindrical, not compressed, stout ; head of moderate length, 
rather flat, and distinct from neek, with the snout rounded; tail of moder- 
ate length ; eye moderately large, with round pupil. Rostral shield of 
normal size and form ; two pairs of frontals; nostril between two nasals ; 
one loreal, one anterior, and two or three posterior oculars. Scales smooth, 
in seventeen to twenty-three rows; subcaudals two-rowed. Posterior 
maxillary tooth longest, and in a continuous series with the anterior one. 
