450 AMPHISBHNIDA, 
millim 
Length 0 Vents. wi arciene ner ale acetate 240 
EL AI» s'esapisnts Mosc deaer bia el Stet werearones tas 18 
Diameter of body..............5. 8:5 
Virgin Islands, West Indies. 
a, Ad, (A, 242+15). St. Jean. Copenhagen Museum [P.]. (As 
typical of A. antillensts.) 
b-c. Ad. (A. 244+16, St.Thomas. Hr. Riise [C.]. 
247 +15). 
26. Amphisbena punctata. (Prare XXIII. fig. 3.) 
Cadea punctata, Gray, Cat. Tort. p.72, and 
Sh. Rept. ii. p. 88. 
Amphisbeena punctata, Bell, Zool. Journ, iii, 1828, p. 286; Dum. §& 
Bibr.v. p. 494; Coct.in R. de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, p. 195, pl. xxi.; 
Strauch, Mél, Biol, Ac. St. Petersb. xi. p. 417. 
Premaxillary teeth 5; maxillaries 5—5; mandibulars 8—8. 
Snout pointed, slightly prominent. Rostral moderately large, quad- 
vangular, forming a broad suture with the anterior border of the 
prefrontal; latter large, single, covering the upper surface of the 
snout; longer than broad; a pair of narrow, elongate frontals 
followed by a pair of small square occipitals; eye slightly distinct 
through the ocular; an elongate supraocular produced forwards to 
the nasal with which it forms a suture, the two shields separating 
the labials from the frontal; three upper labials, first smallest, 
second largest; mental subquadrangular, followed by an elongate 
chin-shield ; three lower labials, first small, second and third very 
large. Two hundred and nineteen annuli on the dorsal side, one 
hundred and seventy-eight on the ventral; fifteen annuli on the 
tail; an annulus on the middle of the body contains thirty seg- 
ments ; the dorsal segments oval, the ventrals square and distinctly 
broader than long. No lateral line. Anal segments eight; pre- 
anal pores four. Flesh-coloured above, with small brown spots: 
millim 
Length to vent: o.accsucorevovadas 180 
Tails chcdaee a ee eer aes aA .. 18 
Diameter of body ............... 7 
Cuba. 
a, Ad, Cuba. W.S. Mac Leay, Esq. [P.]. 
(Type.) 
27. Amphisbena brasiliana. 
Bronia brasiliana, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. ii. p. 87. 
Bronia brasiliana, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 448, fig. 
Amphisbena brasiliana, Strauch, Mél. Biol. Ac. St. Petersb. xi. 
p. 413. 
Premaxillary teeth 7; maxillaries 5—5; mandibulars 8—8, 
