372 Zoological Society : — 



Body slender ; the dorsal scutella square, as long as broad, with a 

 dark central dot ; two central longitudinal series of ventral scutella 

 broader than long, smooth, white ; the lateral line very indistinct, 

 scarcely visible except on the hinder part of the body ; preanal pores 

 four ; preanal shields six, square. The eyes are slightly visible 

 through the shields. 



Sarea c^ca, Gray, Cat. Tort. &c., B. M. 71. 

 Amphishcena cceca, Cuvier, R. A. 773 ; Dum. et Bibr. Erp. Gen. v. 

 492. 



Hub. West Indies, St. Thomas's {J. JEL. Eiise, B. M.). 



The specific name is not characteristic, as the eyes are as much 

 seen through the shield as in many Amphisbaenians. 



Cadea, Gray, Cat. Tort., &c., B. M. 71, 1844. 



Head conical ; rostral narrow, higher than broad, truncated at the 

 tip, convex in front ; nasals ovate, lateral ; crown with two large, tri- 

 angular shields ; frontal with a small linear shield on each side of it ; 

 and two pairs of square occipital shields, the hinder pair smaller ; eye- 

 shield rhombic ; eyes hidden ; labial shields ^, subequal, middle 

 one in each lip largest ; temples covered with square shields ; gular 

 plate single, elongate. Body cylindrical ; lateral line very indistinct, 

 scarcely to be distinguished except on the hinder part of the body ; 

 shields of the back square, of the under surface rather wider, but 

 scarcely wider than long ; preanal pores four ; the preanal shields 

 six, central ones elongate. 



Cadea punctata. Gray, I.e. 71. 



Amphisbcena punctata. Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 236, t. 20. f. 2. 

 A. cceca. La Sagra, Cuba, 195, t. 21. 



Pale brown, dotted and varied with deeper brown. 

 Hob. Cuba {TV. S. Macleay, B. M.) : the specimen described by 

 Mr. Bell. 



Tribe 2. Anopinina. Head compressed, keeled on the sides in 

 front ; the nostrils lateral, on the under side of the keel. 



A. Lateral line distinct and impressed. 



Anops, Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 99; Zool. Journ. v. 391, 

 t. 16. f. 1 ; Gray, Cat. Tortoises, &c., B. M. 72, 1844. 



Lateral line distinct, sunken; preanal pores "none" (Bell); 

 " four " {l>nm. ^' Bibr on). 



Anops Kingii, Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 99; Zool. Journ. v. 

 391, t. 16. f. 1 ; Gray, Cat. Tortoises, &c., B. M. 72. 



Amphish<Ena Kingii, Dum. et Bibr. Erp. Gen. v. 497. 

 Hab. S. America (P. P. Kiny ; Charles Darwin) ; Buenos Ayres 

 (D'Orbiyny, Mus. Paris). 



