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BLACK-SPOTTED SLOW-WORM? 



Anguis ? Icucomelas. A. albus, serie triplid Tel quadruplid ma- 



cularum dorsalium nigrarum. 

 White, Slow-Worm ? with a triple or quadruple dorsal series of 



black spots. 

 Vipera Brasiliensis Tctzauhcoatl dicta. Seb. 2. t. 78. f. 2, 3. 



A BEAUTIFUL serpent ; figured in the work of 

 Seba : length about two feet : colour above milk- 

 white, with a triple row of black spots down the 

 upper part, the middle range being divided by a 

 narrow fillet of the white ground-colour : sides 

 and abdomen tinged with yellow : head white, 

 large-scaled, and minutely speckled with black : 

 tail rather short, and terminating somewhat ob- 

 tusely : this species has the habit of a Coluber in 

 some degree, and is said by Seba to be smooth, 

 round, and plump, with an obtuse tail. 



RUFOUS SLOW-WORM. 



Anguis Rufa. A. tota cuprco-rufa. 

 Slow-Worm entirely of a coppery rufous colour. 

 Amphisbaena Amboincnsis, squamis rubicundis obducta. Seb* 

 2. t. l.f. 4. 



LENGTH about a foot and half: thickness mo- 

 derate : colour a uniform high rufous or coppery 

 brown, with a white spot near the tip of the tail : 

 scales of moderate size, rounded, and each marked 

 by a dusky central speck : native of Amboina. 



