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The other group of Malay Amphibians are the Coecilians^ 
a group for which there is unfortunately no popular name and 
apparently no special Malay name either. They are worm- 
shaped creatures, about ri inches in length, of burrowing habits, 
without a trace of limbs and with a slimy skin thrown into 
ring-like folds which increase the similarity to worms. Two 
species occur on Singapore island: Ichthyophis momchrous, 
of a uniform purplish black colour which, according to 
Dr. Cantor, was first observed here by Dn Montgomerie in 
" in whose garden it was turned up with the earth, from about 
two feet below the surface'*; and Icbthyophis ghUinosus, with 
a white stripe on either side of its body, the first specimen of 
whicht recorded from this island, was obtained by Mr. L. M. Bell 
from excavations at the Impounding Reservoir, Thomson Road, 
in 1904, and presented by htm to the Museum, 
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