58 : GLAUCONIID A, 
The Snakes of this Family bear a very close superficial resemblance 
to the T'yphlopide, from which they may be distinguished externally 
Skull of Glauconia macrolepis (after Peters). 
by the character of the nasal shield which, whether single or divided, — 
borders the lip, and by the eerere preanal. 
1. ANOMALEPIS. 
Anomalepis, Jan, Arch. f. Nat. 1861, p. 6, and Arch. Anat. Zool. 
Phys. i. 1862, p. 185, and Icon. Gén. Ophid. p- 6 (1864) ; Peters, — 
Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 1881, p. 69; Bocourt, Miss, Sc. ue 
Rept. p. 503 (1882). 
A pair of large prefrontals and a frontal; nasal large and laters; 
semidivided, bordering the lip. Preanal scales enlarged. 
Mexico. 
This genus was referred by Jan to the 7yphlopide, but it does 
not appear from his descriptions that he ever examined the dentition. 
I therefore follow Garman (N. Am. Rept. p. 129, 1883) in placing 
it in the present family, as, judging from external characters, it 
appears to stand in the same relation to Glancoma as Helminthophis 
to Typhlops. 
