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1. Anomalepis mexicana. 



Anomalepis mexicamis, Jan, II. cc. Ico7i. 1. 1, pis, v. & vi. fig. 1 (1860) ; 

 Bocourt, I. c. 



Snout rounded, moderately prominent : nostrils lateral ; rostral 

 rather small ; prefrontals and frontal subcqiial in si/e, the former 

 forming a median suture : supraoeulars well developed ; eye dis- 

 tinguishable under the ocular ; two superposed pra:oculars, the lower 

 in contact with the two labials ; two small suboculars ; two upper 

 labials. Diameter of body 32 times in the total length ; tail broader 

 than long, rounded. 22 scales round the body ; a pair of enlarged 

 pra>anals. Eeddish brown, lighter interiorly, the scales with a 

 yellowish-white border. 



Total length 130 millim. 



2. GftAW0!«A! ' ' 



Stenostoma {non Lati:), Wayler, in Spiv, Seiy. Bras. p. 68 (1824) ; 



Darn. Sf Bibr. Erp. Gen. vi,' p. 322 (1844) ; Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid. 



p. 34 (1864) ; Peters, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freimde, 1881, p. 71, and 



Beise n. Mossamb. iii, p. 102 (1882) ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Me.v., 



Bept. p. 504 (1882). 

 Typhlops, part., War/ler, Si/sf. Amjyh. p. 195 (1830). 

 Catodon [non L.), Diim. i^- Bibr. vi. p. 318. 

 Glaiiconia, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 139 (1845) ; Bouleng. Faun, hid., Ttept. 



p. 243 (1890); Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 589. 

 Epictia, Gray, I. c. 

 'Rena,Baird «§• Gir. Cat. N. Am. Bept. p. 142 (1853); Cope, I. c. 



p. 590. 

 Sabrina, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 181. 

 Rhampliostoma {non Wayl.), Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. i. 1862, 



p. 190. 

 Tricheilostoma, Jan, I. c. 

 Tetracheilostoma, Jan, I.e. p. 191. 

 Siagonodon, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Fr. 1881, p. 71 ; Bocnurt, I. c. 



p. 507. 

 Leptotyphlops, Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1891, p. 501. 



Eostral, nasal, and ocular large ; frontal small, scale-like ; nasal 

 divided or scmidivided, extending on each side of the rostral to the 

 upper surface of the head, bordering the lip. Pra^anal scale 

 enlarged. 



Africa, South-western Asia, America. 



Sjinopsis of the Species. 



I. Supraocidar present, the ocular being separated from its fellow, 

 on the top of the head, by three shields. 



A. Ocular bordering the lip, separated from the lower part of the 

 nasal by a single labial. 



1. Suout hooked, the praeoral portion flat or concave inferiorly. 



