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1. Anomalepis mexicaua. 



Anomalepis mexicaniis, Jan, 11. cc. Icon. 1. 1, pis. v. & vi. fig. 1 (1860) ; 

 Bocourt, I. c. 



Snout rounded, moderately prominent ; nostrils lateral ; rostral 

 ratter small ; prsefrontals and frontal subequal in size, the former 

 forming a median suture ; supraoculars well developed ; eye dis- 

 tinguishable under the ocular ; two superposed prseoculars, the lower 

 in contact with the two labials ; two small suboculars ; two upper 

 labials. Diameter of body 32 times in the total length ; tail broader 

 than long, rounded. 22 scales round the body ; a pair of enlarged 

 prseanals. Eeddish brown, lighter inferiorly, the scales with a 

 yeUowish-white border. 



Total length 130 millim. 



Mexico. 



2. GLAUCONIA. 



Stenostoma {non Latr.), Waffle?-, in Spiv, Serp, Bras. p. 68 (1824) ; 



Bum. ^ Bibr. Erp. Gin. vi. p. 822 (1844) ; Jan, Icon. Gin. Ophid. 



p. 34 (1864) ; Peters, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 1881, p. 71, and 



Heise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 102 (1882) ; Bocourt, Miss. Se. Mex., 



Rept. p. 604 (1882). 

 Typhlops, part., Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 195 (1830). 

 Catodon [non £.), Hum. 8f Bibr. vi. p. 318. 

 Glauconia, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 189 (1845) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 



p. 243 (1890); Cope, Proa. U. 8. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 589. 

 Epictia, Gray, I. c. 

 Eena, Baird §• Gir. Cat. N. Am. Bept. p. 142 (1853) ; Cope, I. c. 



p. 590. 

 Sabrina, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 181. 

 Rhamphostoma {non Wagl.), Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. i. 1862, 



p. 190. 

 Tricheilostoma, Jan, I. c. 

 Tetracheilostoma, Jan, I. e. p. 191. 

 Siagonodon, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Fr. 1881, p. 71 ; Bocourt, I. c. 



p. 507. 

 Leptotyphlops, Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1891, p. 501. 



Eostral, nasal, and ocular large ; frontal small, scale-like ; nasal 

 divided or semidivided, extending on each side of the rostral to the 

 upper surface of the head, bordering the lip. Prseanal scale 

 enlarged. 



Africa, South-western Asia, America. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Supraocular present, the ocular being separated from its fellow, 

 on the top of the head, by three shields. 



A. Ocular bordering the lip, separated from the lower part of the 

 nasal by a single labial. 



1. Snout hooked, the praeoral portion ilat or concave inferiorly. 



