472 AMPHISBENID %, 
ventral line, an obsolete vertebral line, no lateral line; median 
dorsal and ventral segments roundish, scale-like. Tail compressed, 
pointed. Preeanal pores. 
East Africa. 
1. Agamodon anguliceps. 
Agamodon anguliceps, Peters, l.¢. pl. x. 
Premaxillary tecth 3; maxillaries 2—2; mandibulars 5—5. 
Head with projecting supero-lateral edges; snout truncate, pro- 
jecting.  Rostral large, trapezoid, its posterior border largest, 
straight, in contact with a large shield; latter covering the frontal 
and parietal region, longer than broad, subpentagonal, with obtuse 
posterior angle; a large preocular; an infraocular ; three upper 
labials, first very small and united with the nasal, third very large. 
Mental narrow, elongate; chin-shields very small; three lower 
labials, third largest. Body very short. One hundred and thirty- 
two anuuli on the body, and seventeen on the tail. No lateral line, 
but a feebly marked vertebral line and a stronger ventral one; the 
segments adjoining these grooves round and scale-like. Eight or 
ten anal segments. Four preanal pores. Yellowish white; back 
with irregular black spots, which may be confluent into an in- 
terrupted longitudinal line. 
millim, 
Length to vent .............. 153 
Dats: sg stn vataed: 45h) Be aod Deal teen 19 
Diameter of body ............ 12 
Barava, East Africa. 
