BLACK-BANDED SLOW-WORM. 583 



rounded form, and the head and tail are remark- 

 ably obtuse. This beautiful animal is a native of 

 South America, where it is said to be found in 

 woods, and to prey on the larger insects, as scolo- 

 pendras, &c. &c. : in colour it sometimes varies, a 

 mixture of black being blended with the red on 

 the sides, and the bands more numerous in some 

 specimens than in others. 



BLACK-BANDED SLOW-WORM. 



Anguis Ater. A. albus nigrofasciatus. 

 White Slow- Worm, with black bands. 

 Anguis Ater. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1123. 

 Amphisbaena Ceilonica foemina. Seb. 2. t. 73../. 3. 



MUCH allied in general appearance to the pre- 

 ceding, but differing in colour, being white with 

 black bands : the abdominal scales, according to 

 Seba's figure, on the authority of which this species 

 is given, are somewhat dilated, so as to approach 

 in some degree to those in the genus Coluber : na- 

 tive of South America. 



