1. ICHTHTOPHIS. 89 



B. Eyes below the cranial bones. 



Tentacle globular, surrounded by a ring-shaped groove, nearer 

 the commissure of the jaws than the nostril. 



6. Grymnopis, p. 99. 



Tentacle as in the preceding, but nearer the nostril than the com- 

 missure of the jaws 7. Herpele, p. 100. 



II. No scales. 



A. Squamosals in contact with parietals. 



Eyes below the cranial bones ; tentacle globular, surrounded by a 

 ring-shaped groove 8. Gegenophis, p. lol. 



Eyes distinct ; tentacle flap-shaped, tentacular groove horseshoe- 

 shaped, much nearer the eye than the nostril. 



9. Siphonops, p. 101. 



Eyes distinct ; tentacle as in the preceding, but nearer the nostril 

 than the eye ; end of body compressed. 



10. Typhlonectes, p. 102. 



B. Squamosals separated from parietals. 



Tentacle flap-shaped, in the middle between the nostril and the eye. 



11. Chthonerpeton, p. 104. 



1. ICHTHYOPHIS. 



Ichthyophis, Fitziru). Neue Classif. d. JRepf. p. 36 ; Gray, Cat. p. 60 : 



Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1879, p. 931. 

 Epicrium, Wagl. Isis, 1828, p. '743, and Syst. Amph. p. 198; 



Tschudi, Batr. p. 90 ; Bum. ^ Bibr. viii. p. 285 ; A. Bum. Mhn. 



Soc. Cherb. ix. p. 319. 

 Rhinatrema, Bum. Sr Bibr.^p. 288 ; Gray, I. c. ; A. Bum. I. c. p. 320. 



Squamosals in contact with parietals. Two series of teeth in the 

 lower jaw. Tentacles cultriform, exsertile, between the eye and the 

 nostril. Cycloid scales imbedded in the skin. 



East Indies. 



1. Ichthyophis glutinosus. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



Ichthyophis glutinosus, Gray, Cat. p. 60. 

 Rhinatrema bivittatum, id. ibid. p. 61. 

 Ooecilia glutinoaa, Linn. Mus. Ad. Fred. p. 19, pi. 26. f. 2, and 



S. N. i. p. 229 ; Baud. Rept. vii. p. 418 : Petei-s, Mon. Berl. Ac. 



1864, p. 303. 



Viscoi3.,Latr. Rept. iv. p. 238. 



Ichthyophis hasseltii, Fitzing..Neue Classif. Bept. p. 63. 



Ooecilia hypocyanea, .ETasse/i, Isis, 1827, p. 565; Miiller, Zeitsehr.f. 



Phys. iv. p. 195, and Arch. Anat. Phys. 1835, p. 391, pi. 8. 



f. 12-14; Schleg. Abbild. p. 119, pi. 39. f. 1. 



