284 CLASS REPTILIA. 



Others have the folds much more multipHed, or 

 rather serrated, transverse striae. 



Tlie Glutinous Coecilia (^Cosc. Glutinosa, Lin.), 

 Seb. XXV. 2, and Mus. Ann. Fred. iv. 1, 



Is of this number. It has three hundred and fifty 

 folds which unite underneath in an acute angle, and 

 is blackish, with a yellowish longitudinal band along 

 each side. It is found in Ceylon.* 



There are some, in fine, in which the folds are 

 almost effaced. Their body is slender, and very 

 long. Their muzzle projecting. One species is 

 entirely blind, ( Ccecilia Lumhricoides, Daud. VIII. 

 xcii. 2,) blackish, two feet long, and about as thick 

 as the tube of a pen.t 



does not correspond below; Ccec. Rostrata, Nob., with the muzzle a little 

 pointed, and without white edges to the rings. 



N.B. It is impossible to tell why Spix has attributed to his Ccec. An- 

 nulata two hundred and odd folds : his figure exhibits no more than 

 eighty. 



* It is truly of Ceylon, though Daudin asserts that it is of America. 

 M. Leschenault brought it to us from Ceylon, but it is true that there is 

 in America a closely approximating species. Ccec. Bivittata, Nob. 



•}- Linnaeus gives it, Mus. ad. Fred. V. 2, but confounds it with tenta- 

 culata. 



We have a skeleton of a coecilia more than six feet long, and with two 

 hundred and twenty- five vertebrae ; but the external characters of which 

 we are not acquainted with. 



