450 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE AMPHISBENIANS. [May 23, 
Capea puncrata, Gray, /.c. 71. 
Amphisbena punctata, Bell, Zool. Journ, ii. 236, t. 20. f. 2. 
A. ceca, La Sagra, Cuba, 195, t. 21. 
Pale brown, dotted and varied with deeper brown. 
Hab. Cuba (W. S. Macleay, B. M.): the specimen described by 
Mr. Bell. 
Tribe 2. ANoprninA. 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. Soe. 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? (Dum. § Bibron). 
Anops kinott, Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 99; Zool. Journ. y. 
391, t. 16. f.1; Gray, Cat. Tortoises, &c., B. M. 72. 
Amphisbena kingii, Dum. et Bibr. Erp. Gén. v. 497. 
Hab. S. America (P. P. King; Charles Darwin) ; Buenos Ayres 
(D’ Orbigny, Mus. Paris). 
I have not been able to examine this genus, which was described 
by Mr. Bell from a specimen brought from South America by Capt. 
P. P. King, R.N.; it is described in more detail by MM. Dumeéril 
and Bibron from specimens obtained by Mr. Charles Darwin. 
The existence of the lateral line, which, according to Mr. Bell, ‘is 
more distinct than in Amphisbena, though less so than in Chirotes,” 
and the account of the plates of the head as described by MM. 
Duméril and Bibron, show that it must be distinct from the follow- 
ing, which comes from Africa. 
B. Lateral line none, or only very slightly visible on the hinder 
part of the body. 
BaIkKIA. 
The head compressed, elevated; rostral plate very large, com- 
pressed, forming an arched crest from the mouth to the forehead, 
with a groove on the hinder part over the nostrils ; crown with two 
pairs of band-like shields behind the upper edge of the rostral, the 
front pair narrow; eye-shield very minute ; eye invisible; temples 
with two small shields; the upper labial shields 3—3; the second 
upper large, produced, keeled on the side; the hinder, under the 
temporal shield, larger, square ; lower lip covered with a single large 
shield on each side, separated by a square inferior rostral shield and 
by two small gular plates placed one behind the other ; nostrils large, 
lateral, under the edge of the keel of the frontals.- Body and chest 
covered with rings of similar oblong square shields; preanal pores 
