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but their second lung is equally small as in the 

 other serpents. Their liver is divided into a great 

 number of transverse foliations. Vegetable matters, 

 mould, and sand, are found in their intestines. The 

 only osselet of the ear is a small plate over the 

 fenestra oralis, as in the salamanders. 



Some have the muzzle obtuse, the skin loose, the 

 folds very marked, and two small hairs near the 

 nostrils. 



Such is, 



The Annulated Coecilia, (^Ccec. Annulata, Spix, 



xxvii.) 



Blackish, with eighty and some more folds, marked 

 with white circles ; teeth conical. 



It lives in Brazil, remaining many feet under 

 ground in a marshy soil. 



The Tentaculated Cwcilia, ( C. Tentaculata, Lin.), 

 Amen. Acad. I. xvii. 1, 



With one hundred and some folds. Which, two 

 by two, especially near the tail, do not surround 

 the entire body. It is black, with white marblings 

 under the belly.* 



* This coecilia is not more tentaculated than others of its subdivision. 

 Add, Coecilia Albiventri.i, Daud. VII. xcii. I, if it be not the same as the 

 tentaculated ; Ccec. Jnlcrrujita, Nob., in which the white line of the rings 



