m6 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Genus CARPHOPHIOPS Gervais. 
The Ground Snakes. 
Carphophiops amzenus (Say). 
PLATE 31. 
Worm snake. Ground snake, Blind snake. 
Head small, depressed, continuous with body. Snout broad, 
convexly depressed, and when viewed from above broadly con- 
Worm Snake. Carphophiops amenus (Say). 
vex. It also projects well beyond mandible. Eye small, lateral 
and about midway in length of mouth measured from tip of 
upper jaw, Or over commisure of third and fourth upper labials. 
Frontal plate unevenly hexagonal, shape of plumb-bob, nearly as 
broad as long. Internasals angular, about a third size of pre- 
frontals, which are also angular, and touch upper front margin 
of eye. Parietals large, elongate. Rostral broad and well 
developed. Nasal single and nostril in middle of anterior half. 
Loreal large and touching front of eye. Postorbital elevated 
and quadrangular. Upper labials 5, and graduated back to 
