454 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE AMPHISBENIANS. [May 23, 
sternal disk of eight or ten large shields, the two central pairs par- 
rallel, one in front of the other; the lateral pairs diverging. 
CEPHALOPELTIS SCUTIGERA, Gray, Cat. Tort., &c., B. M. 73. 
Cephalopeltis lepidosternon, Miller, 1. c. t. 21. f. 6 (skull), t. 22. 
f. 5 (head). 
Amphisbena scutigera, Hempr. Naturf. Freund. zu Berlin, 1820, 
oy 
3 Lepidosternon scutigerum, Dum. et Bib. Erp. Gén. v. 509. 
Cephalopeltis cuvieri, Miller (fide Dum.). 
Coleopeltis cuvieri, J. Miller (fide A. Smith). 
Hab. Brazils (Miller). 
B. The pectoral disk formed of six or eight elongate, longitudinal, 
parallel shields; head-shield single. Africa. 
Monorropuis, A. Smith. 
The head covered with a single nail-like shield, without any slits 
on the hinder part of its side edge; the rostral plate between the 
nasal plates, transverse, four-sided, broader than high; the shields 
of the sternal disk regular, broad, and truncated in front; the rings 
of shields in front of the sternal disk formed of regular square shields, 
like the rest of the body. 
Monortropuis capensis, A. Smith, Zool. 8. Africa. Rept. t. 47 
(white; pink when alive). 
Hab. S. Africa (B.M.). The type specimen of Sir Andrew Smith. 
Dr. Peters records Monotrophis capensis as found in Mozambique; 
but on comparison it may prove a distinct species. In my notes I 
have a reference to Lepidosternon sphenorhynchum, Peters, MS., as 
an East-African species, but I cannot find it described or noticed 
anywhere. Can it be the name Dr. Peters gave to his Monotrophis 
before he discovered it had been described by Sir Andrew Smith? 
DALOPHIA. 
The head covered with a single nail-like shield, with a linear slit 
on the hinder part of its side edges; the rostral plate small, trian- 
gular, with the point upwards between the nasal plates; the shields 
of the sternal disk rather irregular, but symmetrical, each with an 
Dalophia welwitschii. 
