Transactions and proceedings and report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia . e taken from one pellet, so thatthe animals must be common in favourable localities. Owingto their fragmentary character it is not possible to definitelydetermine them specifically, but the teeth and portions of theskulls preserved are indistinguishable from those of icaudata. In addition to this species, quite a number of the smallermammals from the arid interior, both marsupials andplacentals, develop the base of the tail to a remarkable extent;Fhascogale macdonnellensis and Smmthopsis
Transactions and proceedings and report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia . e taken from one pellet, so thatthe animals must be common in favourable localities. Owingto their fragmentary character it is not possible to definitelydetermine them specifically, but the teeth and portions of theskulls preserved are indistinguishable from those of icaudata. In addition to this species, quite a number of the smallermammals from the arid interior, both marsupials andplacentals, develop the base of the tail to a remarkable extent;Fhascogale macdonnellensis and Smmthopsis larapinta areinstances of the one, and Laomys pedunculatus of theother. The storage of food at the base of the tail is,of course, well known elsewhere : even the star-nosed moleis reported to accumulate food in the tail as a provisionfor the winter. 435 Ophidia. Family TYPHLOPIDAE. Tyfhlops bituberculatus, Peters. Oni/choccphalus hitubcfculafus, Peters: Moiiats. Akad. Berlin,1863, p.^ 233, and 1867, p. 708, fig. 4. Typhlops hituherculatus, Boiileiiger : Cat. Snakes, Brit. Mus.,i., 1893, p. On turning over a termite-riddled log on the StrzeleckiCreek, a single blind snake was secured. Another specimenof the same species, taken at Quorn, was handed to me on ourreturn journey by Mounted Constable Curman. The South Australian Museum also possesses examplesfrom Cooper and Leigh Creeks, both in the Central districts. T. hituherculatus is very common in South Australia,whence the type was obtained ; it also occurs in New SouthWales, Queensland, Victoria,^2) and Western Australia,a,nd we have many specimens from each State. Though pre-viously figured by Peters, as above indicated, the head-shieldsare here represented because the first published illustration isnot accessible in most Australian libraries, a disabilityexperienced in regard to so many of our species of the of the blind snakes emit a most objectionable odourwhen handled. Typhlops australis, aust
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