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1, Anomalepis mexicana. 
Anomalepis mexicanus, Jan, ll. ce. Icon, 1. 1, pls. v. & vi. fig. 1 (1860) ; 
Bocourt, lc. 
Snout rounded, moderately prominent; nostrils lateral ; rostral 
rather small; prefrontals and frontal subequal in size, the former 
forming a median suture; supracculars well developed; eye dis- 
tinguishable under the ocular ; two superposed preoculars, the lower 
in contact with the two labials ; two small suboculars; two upper 
labials. Diameter of body 32 times in the total length ; tail broader 
3 than long, rounded. 22 scales round the body ; a pair of enlarged 
preanals. Reddish brown, lighter inferiorly, the scales with a 
| yellowish-white border. 
Total length 130 millim. 
Mexico. 
2. GLAUCONIA. 4 
Stenostoma (non Latr.), Wagler, in Spix, og! Bras. p. 68 (1824); . 
Dum. § Bibr. Erp. Gén. vi. p. 322 (1844) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. Ophid. 
. 34 (1864); Peters, Sitzh. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 1881, p. 71, and 
ise n, Mossamb, iii. p. 102 (1882); Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., 
Typhiops, oh Wesker Syst. A 195 (1830) 
ops, part., Wag st. h. Dp. ( : 
Grtodon (rom Z.), Dum. § Bibr. vi p. 818. 
Glauconia, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 189 (1845); Bouleng, Faun. Ind., Rept. 
p. 2483 (1890); Cope, Proc, U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 589. 
Epictia, Gray, /. c. : 
Rena, Baird § Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 142 (1853); Cope, 1. e. 
. 590. 
Sabrina, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 181. 
en (non Wagl.), Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. i. 1862, 
Trcheilostoma, Jan, l.e. 
Tetracheilostoma, Jan, /. c. he 191. 
Siagonodon, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Fr.1881, p.71; Bocourt, 1. c. 
507 
Lanbokyphlops, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiy. 1891, p. 501, 
Rostral, nasal, and ocular large; frontal small, scale-like; nasal 
divided or semidivided, extending on each side of the rostral to the 
upper surface of the head, bordering the lip. Praanal scale 
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Africa, South-western Asia, America. 
Synopsis of the Species. 3 
I. Supraocular present, the ocular being separated from its fellow, B 
on the top of the head, by three shields. 5 
A. Ocular bordering the lip, separated from the lower part of the / a 
nasal by a single labial. Se 
1, Snout hooked, the preoral portion flat or concave inferiorly, % 
