BLYTHIA. 287 



subequal iu size ; temporals 1 + 1. Scales in 15 rows. Veutrals 

 127-135; subcaudals 33-38. Brown, with a pale lateral band 

 from the eye to the tip of the tail ; below this, a mottled brown 

 and yellowish band ; chin, throat, and anterior part of neck 

 yellow, the rest of the lower parts red. 



Total length 7'75 inches ; tail 1'25. 



Hcib. Khasi Hills. (Unknown to me.) 



Genus BLYTHIA, 

 Theobald, Cat. Kept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 44, 1868. 



Maxillary teeth about 20, anterior shortest ; posterior maridi- 

 bular teeth much shorter than the anterior. Head not distinct 

 from neck ; eye small, with vertically subelliptic pupil ; nostril 



Fig. 92. Head of Blythia reticulata. 



between two very small nasals and the first labial ; no loreal or prae- 

 ocular. Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, without apical pits, in 

 13 rows ; tail short ; subcaudals in two rows. 



A single species, from the Khasi Hills. 



This genus is nearly equally related to Trachisvhiuni and Aspi- 

 dura. 



341. Blythia reticulata. 



Calamaria reticulata, JBlyth, J. A. S. B. xxiii, 1854, p. 287. 

 Blythia reticulata, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus, p. 44 ; id. Cat. 

 p. 142. 



Eostral about as broad as deep, visible from above ; suture 

 between the internasals one half to two thirds as long as that 

 between the pra?f rentals ; frontal longer than its distance from the 

 end of the snout, about two thirds the length of the parietals ; one 

 postocular and one elongate temporal ; 6 upper labials, third and 



