AUSTRALIAN" SNAKES. 
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Preiss’ Blind Snake. Typhlops preissi. 
(Plate Y, figs. 9, 9a.) 
Typhlops preissi, Jm, Icon., libr. i, pi. 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. 
Schmidt’s Blind Snake. Typhlops bicolor. 
s (Plate Y, figs. 10, 13, 13a.) 
Typhlops bicolor, Schmidt, Peters, Monatsher , dev Perl. A had., Wiss., 1860, pi. 81. 
Jan, Icon., libr. 4, pi. IV, V, f. 3. 
Scales 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 COLUBBIDES- COL VBHID2E. 
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. 
CORONELLA. 
Coronella, sp., laurenti. 
Body cylindrical, not compressed, stout; head of moderate length, 
rather flat, and distinct from neck, with the snout rounded; tail of moder¬ 
ate length; eye moderately large, with round pupil. Eostral 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. 
