94 OPHIDIANS. 
of a uniform thickness, and point of tail very obtuse. There are 3 or 4 
very small lamine on the head, which is covered with suborbicular scales, 
too small to be counted; diameter hardly } inch; color, cream, with 
innumerable black dots.* 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Very common in Vizagapatam, and crawls backward and 
forward with equal facility. 
No. 8. Typhlops onychocephalus. Wagl. Australia fur- 
nishes 10 species, viz. : 
- ime polygramaticus. Schlegel’s blind snake. Krefft.+ 
nigrescens. Gray’s blind snake. 
Riippellii. Ruppell’s blind snake. 
Preisii. Preiss’s blind snake. 
bicolor. Schmidt’s blind snake. 
bituberculatus. Peters’s blind snake. 
- Australis. West Australia blind snake. 
- Giintherii. Giinther’s blind snake. 
sf Wiedii. Wied’s blind snake. 
unguirostris. Queensland blind snake. 
No species are classified under African genera. 
In South America several species are known to exist, par- 
ticularly in Brazil and in the forests of the Isthmus of 
Panama; some are also found in Venezuela. 
Captain Raverty says,f in Puskto there is a species of 
snake called Kaochah or Kawchah, of a dirty earth color, 
covered with red spots, whose bite is said to be mortal. In- 
dividuals of this variety are said to be as thick as a man’s 
arm, less than two feet in length, and of a very repulsive 
appearance. 
* This is another Amphisbenus. 
+ G. Krefft’s Snakes of Australia. 
£ Notes on Kaferistan. 
