a. Two series of teeth in the lower jaw.

α. Quadrato-jugal in contact with parietal.

Tentacle behind nostril; end of body laterally compressed.

Typhlonectes, 3 species, America, p. [93].

β. Quadrato-jugal separated from parietal.

Tentacle between eye and nostril.

Chthonerpeton, 2 species, America.

b. One series of teeth.

α. Quadrato-jugal and parietal in contact; tentacle in front of the eye.

Siphonops, 4 species, America.