Amphisb^na fuligino- 
fa. Pied Worm V nake . Head 
fmall: body of nearly an equal 
fize throughout: tail blunt and 
rounded: colour a glofs white, 
marked on the rings irregularly 
with brown or copper-coloured 
flripes: length ten inches. 
The animals forming this ge-r 
nus, have been generally fup- 
pofed to have two heads; from a 
fancied refemblance the tail bears 
to the head; which deception is 
ftrengthened, by their moving 
like the Earthworm, backward 
as well as forward. 
The one here figured, inhabits 
the warmeft part of America: 
lives under ground: moves 
(lowly: feeds on infefts: and its 
poilon is deemed incurable. 
