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CECILIA. a^:ciLiA. 



Generic Character, 



Corpus teres, sequales. 

 Ruga laterales trunci cau- 

 daeque. 



Body cylindric, equal. 

 Wrinkles on the sides both 

 of body and tail. 



EEL-SHAPED CiECILIA. 



Csecilia Tentaculata. C. anguilliformis, rugis distantibiis, rostra 

 tentaculato. 



Eel-shaped Csecilia, with distant wrinkles and tentaculated 

 snout. 



Cagciha tentaculata. Amoen. Acad. I. p. 498. t, 13. f. 1. 

 L'Ibiare. Cepede Ovip. p. 4:66, pi. 21. 



TThE length of this species is about a foot, and 

 its general appearance that of a small Eel : its co- 

 lour is a livid brown, the abdomen paler or whit- 

 ish : the head is not larger than the begiiming of 

 the trunk, and it is of a somewhat taper form, the 

 upper lip projecting beyond the lower : the eyes 

 are extremely small : the nostrils seated at the tip 

 of the snout, and immediately beneath each is an 

 extremely small cirrhus or beard : the mouth is 

 furnished in each jaw with a row of very small 

 sharp teeth: across the sides of the body, from 



