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BLACK-SPOTTED SLOW-WORM? 



Anguis ? leucomelas. A. albus, serie triplici x>el qiiadruplici ma" 



cularum dorsalium nigrarum. 

 White, Slow-Worm ? with a triple or quadruple dorsal series of 



black spots. 



Vipera Brasiliensis Tetzauhcoatl dicta. Seb, 2. t. 78. /. 2, 3. 



A BEAUTIFUL Serpen t ; figured in the work of 

 Seba : length about two feet : colour above milk- 

 white, with a triple row of black spots down the 

 upper part, the middle range being divided by a 

 narrow fillet of the Avhite ground-colour : sides 

 and abdomen tinged with yellow : head white, 

 large- scaled, and minutely speckled with black : 

 tail rather short, and terminating somewhat ob- 

 tusely : this species has the habit of a Coluber in 

 some degree, and is said by Seba to be smooth, 

 round, and plump, with an obtuse tail. 



RUFOUS SLOW-V/ORM. 



Anguis Rufa. A. tota cupreo-riifa. 

 Slow- Worm entirely of a coppery rufous colour. 

 Amphisbsena Amboinensis, squamis rubicundis obducta. Seb, 

 2. t. 7-f. 4. 



Length about a foot and half: thickness mo- 

 derate : colour a uniform high rufous or coppery 

 brown, with a white spot near the tip of the tail ; 

 scales of moderate size, rounded, and each marked 

 by a dusky central speck : native of Amboina. 



