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with a transverse ridge but no points. Blackish brown, with a 

 more or less marked bright red band along each side. 



Total length 16 inches. 



Hob. Travancore and Anaimalai Hills. 



314. Silybura myhendrae. 



Silybura uilgherriensis, var. myhendrse, Beddome, A. M. N. H. (5) 

 xvii, 1886, p. 15. 



Snout obtuse ; rostral not quite one third the length of the 

 shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above a little 

 longer than its distance from the frontal ; nasals in contact ; frontal 

 slightly longer than broad. Eye more than half the length of the 

 ocular. Diameter of body 25 to 32 times in the total length. 17 

 scales round the middle of the body, 19 behind the bead. Ventrals 

 at least twice as broad as the contiguous scales, 139-153 ; sub- 

 caudals 7. Tail obliquely truncated, flat above, with strongly bi- 

 or tricarinate scales ; terminal scute with a transverse ridge, indis- 

 tinctly biscuspid. Dark purplish brown above, each scale with a 

 crescentic yellowish posterior border ; 3 or 4 or more dark trans- 

 verse blotches behind the head, or along the whole length of the 

 body, alternating and narrowing towards the belly ; lower parts 

 yellowish, with purplish-black spots. 



Total length 13*5 inches ; Mr. Mason possesses a specimen 18 

 inches long. 



Hob. A single specimen is in the British Museum, the type, 

 obtained by Col. Beddoiue on Myhendra Mountain, South Tra- 

 vancore. I have examined a second specimen, with the black 

 cross bauds continued along the whole length of the body, belong- 

 ing to Mr. G. E. Mason, who received it with two others from near 

 Mankompu, Punyat Hills, Travancore, about 3000 feet elevation. 



315. Silybura madurensis. 



Silybura madureusis, Beddome, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 802. 

 Silybura nilgherriensis, vars. arcticeps, part., et picta, Beddome, A. M. 

 N. H. (5) xvii, 1886, p. 16. 



Snout obtusely pointed ; rostral about one fourth the length of 

 the shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above as 

 long as its distance from the frontal ; nasals in contact ; frontal 

 longer tham broad. Eye measuring about half the length of the 

 ocular. Diameter of body 30 to 32 times in the total length. 17 

 scales round the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Ventrals 

 twice as large as the contiguous scales, 142-150 ; subcaudals 8-9. 

 End of tail flat above, obliquely truncated, with strongly bi-, tri-, or 

 quadricarinate scales ; terminal scute with a transverse ridge and two 

 points. Black above, uniform or closely spotted with yellow ; 

 belly orange, with alternating large black spots or cross bands ; 

 lower surface of tail black in the middle, orange on the sides. 



Total length 14 inches. 



Hab. North Travancore and Cumbum Hills, Madura district. 



