434 AMPHISB.ENIDE. 
nulus on the middle of the body contains thirty to thirty-four seg- 
ments, viz. fourteen or sixteen ventral and sixteen or eighteen 
dorsal, Lateral line well marked; a more or less distinct vertebral 
line. Four or six anal segments, median pair largest. Preeanal 
pores six (exceptionally four). Brownish flesh-colour, the segments 
more or less dark brown. 
millim 
Length to vent .............. 215 
dbo eee ae oe ere ee ere 27 
Diameter of body ............ 75 
Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algiers. 
a. Ad, (Annuli 118421; pores 6). Portugal. Prof. B. du Bocage 
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b. Ad. (A, 120422; p. 6). Oporto. E. Ait Esq. [P.]. 
ec. Ad. (A, 123420; p. 6). 3. Europe. P.B. Webb, Esq. [P.]. 
d-e. Ad. (A, 125+21,125+22; p.6). Tangiers. Mr. Fraser (C.]. 
Jf. Hgr. (A. 110+22; p. 6). N. Africa. 
2. Blanus strauchii. 
Amphisbena strauchi, Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. 1884, p. 35, pl. iv. 
Premaxillary teeth 7; max. 3—3 or 4—4; mand. 8—8. Snout 
projecting beyond the lower jaw. Frontal a little longer than 
broad. No occipital fold. One hundred and eight to one hundred 
and nineteen annuli on the body and twenty to twenty-two on the 
tail; an annulus contains sixteen or eighteen dorsal and eighteen 
or twenty ventral segments. Prsanal pores eight (less frequently 
four or six). In other respects like the preceding. 
millim 
Length to vent ........ 1... 170 
MAUL: chit act. gretnasie saceeaeceteraice ee 21 
Diameter of body ............ 7 
Asia Minor, Syria. 
a, Ad. (A. 108+20; p.8). Smyrna. Dr. J. von Bedriaga [E. ]. 
(One of the types.) 
b. Ad. (A. 112+419; p.8). Smyrna. 
e-d. Ad. (A. 119420, Valley of the R. McAndrew, Esq. [P.]. 
119+22; p. 8). Meinder. 
e. Ad. (A.115+7; p.8). | Constantinople. 
3. Blanus bedriage. (Pirate XXIII. fig. 1.) 
Blanus bedriage, Bouleng. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xiii, 1884, p. 396, 
Premaxillary teeth 7; max. 3—3; mand. 7—7. Snout pro- 
jecting beyond the lower jaw. Frontal as broad as long; the 
suture between the frontal and the second labial nearly as long as 
that between the latter and the ocular. Three lower labials, the 
first and second large, the third small. No occipital fold. One 
