BLIND-WORM. 



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SQUAMATA 

 (SAUROPHIDIA.) 



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ANGUWJE. 





Genus, Anguis, Linn. 



Generic Character. — Body and tail cylindrical, obtuse ; scales smooth, imbri- 

 cate, nearly equal above and beneath ; head covered with about nine larger 

 plates ; tympanum concealed ; legs none ; bones of the shoulder, the sternum, 

 and pelvis rudimentary, and wholly concealed. 



BLIND- WORM. SLOW- WORM. 



Anguis fragilis. Linn. 



Specific Character. — Silvery grey, a black longitudinal line extending down 

 the back. Scales rounded and plain. 

 Anguis fragilis, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 392. Mull. Zool. Dan. Prod. p. 36, 



sp. 306. Latr. Rept. IV. p. 209. Daud. Rept. VII. p. 327, t. 



Ixxxvii. f. 2. Merr. Syst. Amph. p. 79. Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 159. 



Gray, Syn. Rept. in Griff. An. Kingd. p. 74. Flem. Brit. An. p. 155. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert, p 295. Ch. L. Bonap. Faun. Ital. c. icon. 



Orvet commun, Cvv. Reg. An. 2 Edit. II. p. 70. 

 Blind-tcorm, Penn. Brit. Zool. III. p. 36, t. iv. No. 15. 



