TENTACULATED ERPETON. 
Generic Character. 
Both- and tail scaly. 
Abdomen lamellated. 
Specific Character, &c. 
ERPETON with the upper lip tentaculated on 
each side. 
ERPETON tcntaculc. 
Cepede .Inn. Mas. National IVHist. Nat. 
No. 10. p. 280. pi. 1. 
The genus Erpeton, instituted by the Count de 
Cepede, consists at present of a single species, which 
is supposed to he a native of the Indian islands, and 
is remarkable for a pair of tentacula or elongated 
processes situated above the upper lip: these tenta¬ 
cula are covered with very minute scales, and are 
not retractile. The animal measures about two feet 
in length, and is not of a poisonous nature, the teeth, 
which are very small, resembling those of innoxious 
serpents. Of its particular habits or history nothing 
seems to be known. 
The specimen described by Cepede belonged to 
the Museum of the Prince of Orange. 
