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4. The flender, variegated Amphifbaena, with a fmali head. 5. The thicker, varie- 
gated Amphifbaena. 6. The great, livid, and black Amphifbaena. 7. The larger, 
fmooth, and flat-headed Amphifbaena. Moft of thefe are the produce of the warmer parts 
of America, and have not yet been defcribed or mentioned by any of the authors, 
who have written on thefe fubje&s. 
A N G U I S. 
T H E under parts of the body and of the tail of the anguis are both covered all 
over with fquammae or fcales, without any fcuta. 
Anguis fquammis abdominalibus centum. & triginta 
quinque , caudalibus cequinumeris. 
The Anguis , with the fquammce of the abdomen a 
hundred and thirty-five , and thofe of the tail the 
fame number. 
This is a fmali fpecies, and, of all the European Serpents, has lead: the appearance of 
one: it grows to about a foot in length, and to the thicknefs of a man's little finger, or 
hardly fo much. It’s colour is a deep, duiky, greyifh-brown on the back, and livid on 
the belly : the fcales are fmali and compact; the head is fmali, and of a form approach¬ 
ing to triangular, but obtufely pointed, fomewhat flatted, and of a paler colour than 
the body : the tail is obtufe j the opening of the mouth is but fmali; the fquammae of 
the abdomen are fmali but rigid, and the anus is at a very confiderable diftance from 
the extremity of the tail. 
It is frequent with us in gardens and paflures, where it lives principally under ground 
feeding on worms: all the writers on animals have defcribed it. Ray calls it Caecilia, 
Typhlinus Grascis ; and others, Typhlos and Caecilia. 
Anguis fquammis abdominalibus centum viginti , caudalibus oSiodecim . 
The Anguis 3 with the fquammce of the abdomen a hundred and twenty , 
thofe of the tail eighteen. 
This is a fmali fpecies: it grows to about fourteen inches long, and to the thicknefs 
of a man’s little finger: the colour is a dufky bluifh-grey on the back, and a deep, 
fhining, iron-grey on the belly, the head is large and flatted ; the opening of the mouth 
wide, and the whole head covered with a grey fkin, of the firmnefs of parchment, with 
a few oblique and irregular furrows on it: the tail is fmali, and terminates in a point : 
the whole furface of the back, is covered with very fmali and compad: fcales : the 
anus is fituated greatly nearer the tail than in the former fpecies, and is very large. 
This is a native of the warmer parts of America. 
Anguis fquammis abdominalibus ducentis quinque , caudalibus triginta 0EI0. 
The Anguis , with the fquammce of the abdomen two-hundred and five , 
and thofe of the tail thirty-eight. 
This grows to two feet in length, but is flender, feldom much exceeding the thick¬ 
nefs of a man’s little finger : it’s colour is a dufky-grey, with fome variegations of a 
paler colour on the back; and the belly is of a deep, or almofi: black, hue, very bright 
and glofly : the head is large, and of a kind of oval form, obtufely pointed at the ex¬ 
tremity, and carried in form of a fegment of a circle to the beginning of the back : it 
is elevated and convex, efpecially on the hinder part, and is covered all over with a 
tough and firm fkin, of a bluifh-grey colour, fomewhat glofly, and marked with a few 
furrows, dividing it into fpaces of an irregular figure: the tail is fmaller than other part 
of the body, but it terminates obtufely, not in a point : the fcales are fmali, of an oval 
figure, and fit very clofe and firm together. 
It is frequent on the ifland of Borneo, and in fome other parts of the Eafl: Indies. 
The other fpecies are, 1. The little brown Anguis, with a pointed tail. 2. The 
little grey Anguis, with a very fmali mouth, and an obtufe tail, 3. The larger, va- 
1 riegated 
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