On a new Elapine Snake from Australia. 333 
black, til)ige yellow. Wings clear, very slightly tinged 
yellowish brown. 
Length 16 mm. 
Face black, with dull brown tomf>ntum and yellowish-brown 
pubescence, some black hairs on the upper part of cheeks and 
under antennte ; beard yellowish brown. Palpi dull brownish 
black with black pubescence, stout, ending in a short point. 
Antcnnai black, with long and slender third joint and hardly 
any tooth ; the first two joints with long black pubescence ; 
the subcallus the same colour as the face. Forehead about 
three times as long as bioad, the same width throughout, 
dull blackish brown with yellowish-brown tomentum and 
long black pubescence ; the frontal callus small, reddish 
brown, oval, the line proceeding from it indistinct; the vertex 
black, with tubercle. Eyes covered with short yellowish- 
brown pubescence. Thorax black, shining, with no stripes ; 
the dorsum nearly bare ; shoulder-spots reddish with some 
yellowish-grey hairs, which are continued round the base of 
tlie thorax ; sides with black pubescence ; breast black, with 
greyish-yellow pubescence and some black hairs. Scutellum 
shining, black. Ab lomen l)lack, somewhat shining; the first 
segment narrowly red at the sides ; the second segment 
broadly red at the sides with narrow reddish segmentations ; 
the following segments with extremely narrow, grey-haired 
segmentations. Legs black; tibiae yellowish with apices 
black; the femora with greyish pubescence; the tibiae with 
dense whitish pubescence, on their black apices and on the 
tarsi it is black. Wings hyaline, the yellowish-browa 
colouring is chiefly round the longitudinal veins of the fore 
border and is very faint ; veins and stigma brown. 
L. — J^escn'ption of a new Elapine Snake from Australia. 
By (jr. A. JJOULENGER, F.li.S. 
Two years ago I described in these * Annals ' * a new Elapine 
snake discovered by Mr. W. Stalker near Alexandria, in 
the Northern Territory of the colony of South Australia, 
and which formed part of a small collection presented to 
the British Museum by Sir W. Ligram, Bart., and the Hon. 
John Forrest. That snake was named iJenisonia forresti. 
Mr. Stalker has continued collecting in the same district, and 
* Sur. 7, vol. xviii. 190G, p. 140. 
334 Mr. A. G. Hanirnar on a 
I have now tlie pleasure of describing another snake of the 
same group, but of much larger size, and to connect with it 
the name of Sir W. Ingram. 
Diemenia ingravii. 
Eye rather small, its diameter equal to its distance from 
the oral border and one third the length of the snout. Snout 
rounded, strongly projecting beyond the lower jaw, with 
feeble canthus. Rostral broadtir than deep, the portion 
visible from above measuring about one half its distance 
from the frontal ; internasals a little shorter than tlie pras- 
frontals ; frontal bell-shaped, as broad as the supraocular, 
once and two thirds as long as broad, as long as its distance 
from the end of the snout, tiiree fourths the length of the 
parietals ; nasal divided, separated from the single, deeply 
grooved prasocular ; two postoculars ; temporals l-|-2; six 
upper labials, second in contact with the prsefrontal, tliird and 
fourth entering the eye, fifth narrowly separated from the 
parietal, sixth very large ; four lower labials in contact with 
the anterior chin-shields, which are larger tiian the posterior. 
Scales in 17 rows, on the body, in 21 on the neck. Ventrala 
205 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 65 pairs. Uniform dark 
brown above and on the outer ends of the ventral shields, 
some of tiie scales lighter in the centre, yellow beneath. 
Total length 1510 mm. ; tail 240. 
A single specimen from Alexandria. 
LI. — Note on tlie Type Specimen of a Blind Snake, 
Helminthophis vvilderi (Garman), from Brazil. By A. 
G, Hammar. 
In the course of studies of South-American snakes in the 
Museum of Cornell University, I had the opportunity to 
examine the type specimens of Tiiphlops wi/deri, Garm. 
Since this species is not recognized in the literature, and has 
been referred to in Boulenger's ' Catalogue of Snakes,' i. p. 7, 
in a footnote, as insufficiently characterized, I have made 
a careful study of the specimens and give below a new 
description, which will bring it into its proper systematic 
position. 
l)ue to the presence of two very large prefrontals, Typlilops 
wilderi, Garm., must be included under the genus lldinm- 
thophis, Peters, Boulenger, Cat. of Snakjs, i. p. 4.