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JAMAICA SLOW-WORM, 



ably longer than the lower, and marked on the 

 tip by a yellow spot : tail terminated by a horny 

 tip, and marked by a yellow spot and two oblique 

 yellow bands : native of Surinam. 



JAMAICA SLOW-WORM. 



Anguis Jamaicensis. A. suhargenteo-fuscescens, corpore sensim in* 

 crassatOy cauda abrupte suhacuminata. 



Silvery-brownish Slow- Worm, with the body gradually thick- 

 ening, and the tail abruptly subacuminate. 



Amphisbaena subargentea. Silver Snake, Brown Jam. p. 4:60. 

 pi. 44./. 1. 



Serpens Caecilia ex Mauritania. Seb, 1. 1. S7'f. 2, 

 Anguis lumbricalis ? Li?i. Syst. Nat. p. 391. 



The length of this species, according to Brown^ 

 in his History of Jamaica, seldom exceeds sixteen 

 inches, and the diameter of the animal gradually 

 increases from the snout to the tail, which is ex- 

 tremely short, and terminates in a slightly pointed 

 extremity : it is found about the roots of decayed 

 trees, near ants' nests, &c. and though popularly 

 considered as poisonous, is entirely innocuous : its 

 colour is a uniform pale brown, with a kind of 

 silvery gloss on the scales, which are extremely 

 smooth, resembling in some degree tliose of the 

 Scink. 



