. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. I . 1 r i *4— - • t « flip 1 1 1 !. Fig. 11. Amphisbaena leonina (Type after Miiller). a postmental, flanked on either side by a chin shield which is in contact with a first lower labial; 227-240 annuli on body, 20-21 on tail; 24 (14 + 10) segments in a midbody annulus, the 2 median ventral seg- ments two times as broad as long; 6 anals; 3-7 preanal pores. Measurements. Total length 170 (155 + 15) mm. Distribution. Portuguese Guinea: Rio Pongo. French Guinea: Kassa and Tumbo in the Los Islands. (Known only from the ty
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. I . 1 r i *4— - • t « flip 1 1 1 !. Fig. 11. Amphisbaena leonina (Type after Miiller). a postmental, flanked on either side by a chin shield which is in contact with a first lower labial; 227-240 annuli on body, 20-21 on tail; 24 (14 + 10) segments in a midbody annulus, the 2 median ventral seg- ments two times as broad as long; 6 anals; 3-7 preanal pores. Measurements. Total length 170 (155 + 15) mm. Distribution. Portuguese Guinea: Rio Pongo. French Guinea: Kassa and Tumbo in the Los Islands. (Known only from the type in Basel Museum, a second specimen in the Royal Brussels Museum, and a third in Hamburg Museum, which latter I have examined). Remarks. Closely related to Placogaster degrysi sp. n., of Lagos, Sierra Leone, for points of difference see page 000 Parker (1939a) comments on the conspicuousness of the middorsal furrow which he says is as noticeable as those on the flanks. Amphisbaena oligopholis Boulenger 1906i. Amphisbaena oligopholis Boulenger, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (3), 2, p. 201, fig. 1: Cassine River district, Portuguese Guinea. 1910b. Werner, p. 40. 1919. Schmidt, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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