596 WHITE-SIDED CECILIA. 



head to taii, run numerous, semi-annular, and 

 pretty distinct furrows or wrinkles, which are 

 about a hundred and thirty-five in number ; those 

 on the upper parts being moderately distant from 

 each other, but becoming more close or numerous 

 as they approach the extremity, almost immedi- 

 ately beneath which is situated the vent, there 

 being, properly speaking, no distinct tail : the 

 skin of the whole body when closely inspected, is 

 found to be covered with extremely minute pa- 

 pillae or granules. This animal seems to have been 

 first described and figured in the Amoenitates Aca- 

 demicas. It is a native of South America, and is 

 said to be of an innoxious nature. The specimen 

 in the British Museum measures at least eighteen 

 inches in length, the wrinkles on the sides being 

 a fifth of an inch distant from each other : those 

 near the extremity the tenth or twelfth of an inch. 



WHITE-SIDED CECILIA, 



Caecilia Glutinosa. C. jusca, rugis confertissimis, linea laterali 

 albida. 



Brown Cecilia, with extremely close wrinkles, and whitish la- 

 teral line. 



Serpens Caecilia Ceilonica. Seh. 2. p, 26, t, 25. f. 2. 



Caecilia glutinosa. Lin. Si/st. Nat. p. 393. Mus. Ad. Frid, 



p. 19. t. e.f. 1. 



This, which was first described by Seba, is about 

 the same length and diameter with the former, but 

 has a large, tumid head, and wider nostrils, with- 



