378 Zoological Society : — 



band in front of the vent continued in a band on each side of the 

 tail. 



Var. Larger scales of caudal disk three- or four-keeled. 



Hab. Madras {Walter Elliot, Esq.). 



** Scales of caudal disk two-keeled. 



2. SlLOBOURA CEYLONICA. 



Uropeltis Ceylonicus, Cuvier, R. A. ii. 76 ; Cocteau, Mag. Zool. 

 1833, t. 2 (not S. Ceylonica, Gray, Cat.) ; Miiller in Tiedemann's 

 Zeitschr. Phys. iv. 252, 273. t. 21. f. 4, 5, skull? 



Siluboura Ceylonicus, Kelaart, Prod. Fauna, 156. 



Pseudotyphlops ceylanicus, Schlegel, Abbild. 45. 



Coloburus Ceylonicus, Dum. & Bib. Erp. Gen. vii. 164. t. 59. f. 3. 



Caudal disk roundish, oblong ; scales of disk two -keeled ; black, 

 a broad irregular yellow band on each side of the neck from the 

 angle of the mouth, and some yellowish marbling on the sides of 

 the body becoming more obscure behind ; a broad yellow cross-band 

 in front of the vent, continued in a broad band to the sides of the 

 tail. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



2. Uropeltis. 



Tail obliquely truncated; disk roundish, covered with a single 

 flat roundish granulated shield. 



1. Uropeltis grandis. 



Uropeltis (sp. ?), Kelaart, Prodromus, 155. 

 " Uropeltis grandis, Kelaart." In Brit. Mus. 



Caudal disk subcircular, with large scattered tubercles ; nose 

 subacute, rather produced ; dark brown ; chin and beneath yellowish 

 brown, with some of the scales dark brown in the centre near the 

 hinder edge. 



Hab. Ceylon (Kelaart). Dr. Kelaart' s type specimen. 



2. Uropeltis pardalis. 



M Uropeltis pardalis, Kelaart." 



Nose convex, rounded ; caudal disk subcircular, scarcely tuber- 

 cular ; back black, with numerous small white specks on the back 

 and sides ; caudal disk brown, smooth, with a narrow white edge 

 above and a white spot on each side of the lower edge ; belly white, 

 three or four irregular rows of oblong transverse black spots. 



Hab. Ceylon {Kelaart). Dr. Kelaart's type specimen. 



3. Uropeltis? Philippinus. 



Uropeltis Philippinus, Miiller, Tiedem. Zeitschr. fur Physiol, iv. 

 248, 274. t. 22. f. 1 a, b, c, skull ; f. 3, animal nat. size ; Dum. & 

 Bib. Erp. Gen. vii. 161. t. 59. f. 2. 



Rhinophis Philippinus, Boie, Isis, 1827, 513; Miiller, /. c. 248. 



