6. OPHIODES.—7. ANGUIS. 297 
tudinal lines ; upper lip and temple with alternate dark brown and 
whitish vertical bars. 
From snout to vent 185 millim.; tail 265. A larger specimen, 
with reproduced tail, measures 230 millim. from snout to vent. 
South America, from the Guianas to Buenos Ayres. 
a. Ad. Brazil, 
b. Ad. Para. 
e. Ad. Garanhuns, Pernambuco. W. A. Forbes, Esq. [P.]. 
d, Ad. Bahia. Dr. O. Wucherer [C.]. 
e. Ad. Tijuco. R. Bennett, Esq. bp: . 
f-g. Ad. & her. Rio Janeiro. Mrs. Fry [P.]. 
ht, Ad, & yg. Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. v. Ihering [C.]. 
k. Yg. Corrientes, Buenos Ayres. 
2. Ophiodes vertebralis. 
Ophiodes striatus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 99. 
Ophiodes vertebralis, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mev., Rept. p. 459, pl. xxii. a. 
fig. 3. 
Very closely allied to the preceding, from which it differs in the 
following points :—Frontal considerably broader than the parietals ; 
three large chin-shields on each side in contact with the lower 
labials. Twenty-nine or thirty-one scales round the middle of the 
body. No vertical dark bars on the sides of the head; a narrow 
dark vertebral line; a broad and a narrow brown streak on each side, 
separated by a yellowish one. 
Southern Brazil and Uruguay. 
a, Ad. Brazil. C. Darwin, eptel 
6, Her. Brazil. T. Bell, Esq. [P.]. 
7. ANGUIS. 
Anguis, Linn. et omn, auct. 
Siguana, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn.p. 74. 
Dorfia, Gray, Ann. N. H. ii. 1889, p. 334. 
Otophis (Frtzing.), Demid. Voy. Fuss. Mér, iii. p. 341. 
No lateral fold. Scales roundish, arranged quincuncially on the 
back, forming vertical series on the sides. No limbs. Teeth fang- 
like. Palate toothless. 
Europe, Western Asia, Algeria. 
1. Anguis fragilis. 
Anguis fragilis, Gray, Cat. p. 100. 
Anguis ? punctata, Gray, 1. ¢. 
Anguis fragilis, Linn. 8, N. i. p. 892; Laur, Syn. Rept. p. 68, pl. v. 
fig. 2; Daud. Rept. vii. p. 327, pl. lxxxvii. fig. 2; Aryniche, Bull. 
Soc. Nat. Mose. 1837, p. 51; Bonap. Faun. Ital.; Bell, Brit. Rept. 
p. 39; Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 792; De Betta, Erp. Veron. p. 160; 
