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RETICULATED SLOW-WORM. 



Anguis Reticulata. A, rosea, squamis rhombeis cute interjecta 

 alba reticulatis. 



Rose-coloured Slow-Worm, with rhomboid scales, reticulated 



by the interstitial white skin. 

 Amphisb^ena Amboinensis, corio quasi reticulato conspicua. 



Seb. 2. t. 7.f. 3. 



Of similar size and habit with the preceding, 

 but of a strong or deep rose-colour, covered with 

 rhomboid scales, so placed as every where to leave 

 decussations of white bet ween the several rows, the 

 skin appearing through the interstices : along the 

 sides are a few oblong white patches, which form 

 a kind of fasciee as they approach the tail, the tip 

 of which is white : the head is also obscurely sur* 

 rounded by a white zone : native of Amboina. 



SNOUTED SLOW- WORM. 



Anguis Nasuta. A. atromreseiis, suhtus Jlam, naso elongato. 

 Greenish-black Slow-Worm, yellow beneath, with elongated 

 snout. 



Anguis rostratus. C. L. Weigel Mem. des Curienx de la Nature 



de Berlin, 3. j». 190. 

 Abdominal scales 218, subcaudal 12. 



Described by Mr. Weigel in the Berlin Me- 

 moirs : length about a foot : colour greenish black 

 above, and yellow beneath, extending in some 

 parts a little way up the sides : upper lip consider- 



