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This species will come into Division III. of Boulenger’s synopsis,* * * § 
“a prseocular and one or two suboculars,” but will fit into neither 
of the subordinate groups, the character of the snout not being 
sufficiently marked. Taking the number of scales round the 
body, namely, thirty- four to thirty-six, the only described species 
with which it thus agrees is T. acutus , f at once distinguishable 
(apart from its distribution) by the peculiar snout and the remark- 
able size of the rostral. 
A species, T. depressus,\ has previously been made known from 
the Duke of York Island ; in this the prieocular is in contact 
with the labials, and a comparison of Peters' figures (a reference 
to which Mr. Boulenger has, in his Catalogue, § omitted) with those 
below given, shows how widely the two species differ. 
3 . 
In profile. 
Head of Typhlops subocularis (enlarged). 
* Boulenger— Brit. Mus. Cat. Snakes, i., 1893, p. 14. 
f Dum. et Bibr., Erpet. gen., vi., 1844, p. 333. 
I Peters— Monatsb. K. Preus. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880, p. 220, fig. 3 
(p. 309). 
§ Boulenger— loc. cit. f p. 33. 
