472 AMPHTSBiENID^. 



ventral line, an obsolete vertebral line, no lateral Hue ; median 

 dorsal and ventral segments roundish, scale-like. Tail compressed, 

 pointed. Praeanal pores. 

 East Africa. 



1. Agamodon anguliceps. 

 Agamodon angidiceps, Peters, I. c. pi. x. 



Pr^emaxillary teeth 3 ; maxillaries 2 — 2 ; mandibulars 5 — 5. 

 Head with projecting supero-lateral edges ; snout truncate, pro- 

 jecting. Rostral large, trapezoid, its posterior border largest, 

 straight, in contact with a large shield ; latter covering the frontal 

 and parietal region, longer than broad, subpentagonal, with obtuse 

 posterior angle ; a large praeocular ; an infraocular ; three upper 

 labials, first very small and united with the nasal, third very large. 

 Mental narrow, elongate ; chin-shields very small ; three lower 

 labials, third largest. Body very short. One hundred and thirty- 

 two annuli on the body, and seventeen on the tail. No lateral line, 

 but a feebly marked vertebral line and a stronger ventral one ; the 

 segments adjoining these grooves round and scale-like. Eight or 

 ten anal segments. Four praeanal pores. Yellowish white ; back 

 with irregular black spots, which may be confluent into an in- 

 terrupted longitudinal line. 



millim. 



Length to vent 153 



TaH 19 



Diameter of body 12 



Barava, East Africa. 



