Abstract
1. The eye muscles have entirely disappeared. 2. Only the uveal parts of the iris remain. 3. The lens has retained its shape and position, but its structrue has been greatly changed. No capsule is present. 4. Harder's gland is many times larger than the eye and p its secretion into the conjunctival cavity and thence into the mouth. 5. The sclera, scleral cartilages, cornea, vitrous body and pigment epithelium have undergone but little change unless it b in the reduction in size. 6. The cuticle passes over the eye unchanged. 7. The aqueous cavity is no longer present. 8. All the layers of the retina are still present. As shown in Fig. 6, the great reductions in the depth of the layers, in coin parison with those of Anolis, has taken place in the nerve f ganglion cell, inner reticular and inner nuclear layers. 9. If the eye has been reduced from an eye of the ave size, all parts have certainly undergone considerable change, this change has been approximately equal among the sev parts. 10. The retina does not show such a profound change as either the iris, muscles or lens. However, it has been greatly changed, as it extends only 50.7 per cent. of the distance around the eye. 11. The eye of Amphisbæna bears out the statement mad Eigenmann ("Eyes of the Blind Vertebrates of North America, I.) that the more active parts of the eye are the ones to degenerate first. They are the parts which have been most affected.