108. PAKANCIA. 291 



Maxillary teeth subequal, 17 or 18 ; mandibular teeth subequal . 

 Head small, not distinct from neck ; eye smaU, with round pupil ; 

 nostril directed upwards, in a semidivided nasal ; a single internasal ; 

 no prseocular, loreal and prsefrontal entering the eye. Body cylin- 

 drical ; scales smooth, without apical pits, in 19 rows ; ventrals 

 rounded. Tail short ; subeaudals in two rows. 



North America. 



Fig. 20. 



Skull of Faranoia abam/ra. 

 1. Farancia abacura. 



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HellCOps aoacurus, J^uwr. up. c-k. eu. ^, m. p. x\ji, ui. AJI.V1. (1842). 



Hydrops reinwardtii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 68 (1842). 

 Farancia drummondi, Gray, I. c. 



fasciata, Gray, Cat. p. 74 (1849). 



abacurus, Baird ^ Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rent. p. 123 (1863). 



Oalopisma abacurum, Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 342, pi. Ixv. (1854). 

 reinwardti, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. m. 1865, p. 243, and 



Icon. Gin. 29, pi. vi. (1868). 

 Hydrops abacurus, Garm. N. Am. Bept. p. 36, pi. i. fig. 5 (1883) ; 



H. Garm. Bull. IlUn. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 281. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above, forming a 

 suture with the internasal, which is much broader than long; 

 frontal about once and a half as long as broad, longer than its 



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