FOOTLESS AMPHIBIA. 



APODA.* 



The Amphibia, which, from their total want of limbs, have been 

 termed Apoda, so much resemble snakes in their general form, 

 and even in some particulars of their internal structure, that Cuvier 

 arranged them with the serpents, and by the superficial observer 

 they might almost be mistaken for worms ; such are 



FIG. 295. TWO-LINED CECILIA. 



The Blind Worms (CcEcilia)^ The body of these creatures is very nearly 



a, a, without; TTOVS, TroSos, pous, podos, afoot: footless. 



f Csecus, blind. 

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