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PUNCTULATED SLOW-WORM. 



Roncloo Talooloo Pam. Russ. Jnd. Serp. p. 48. pi. 43. 



A SMALL species, about six inches in length, 

 and of the diameter of a hen quill, cream-coloured, 

 and powdered with innumerable black dots ; tail 

 most extremely short and subacuminate. This 

 species is described in Dr. Russel's work on the 

 Indian Serpents : it is common in Vizagapatam, and 

 is vulgarly considered as mischievous : it moves 

 with incredible swiftness, and a specimen im- 

 mersed in spirits remained alive more than ten 

 minutes. 



Dr. Russel describes and figures a larger species 

 under the same name, which seems to be no other 

 than a variety of the A. Mdeagris, differing in 

 having a longer tail than usual. 



CLIVIAN SLOW-WORM. 



Anguis Clivica. A. ex cinereo fusca, frontis scuto majori cordato. 

 Cinereous-brown Slow-Worm, with a large cordated frontal 



scale. 

 Anguis Clivicus. Lin. Lyst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1122. Gem. Serp. 



p. 69. 

 Abdominal scales 177, subcaudal 37. Gronov. 



SAID to be frequent in the Dutchy of Cleves, 

 but seems a species not yet completely described. 



