250 



TLTSIIDiE. 



nostril in a single nasal, which forms a suture with its fellow 

 behind the rostral ; no loreal or praeocular ; a small postocular. 

 Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, in 19 or 21 rows ; ventrals feebly 

 enlarged. Tail extremely short and blunt. 



Burrowing snakes, only occasionally found above ground. Feeding 

 on insects, \^-orms, and small mammals. Ovoviviparons. 



Fig. 78.— Head of Oi/lindrojoMs nifits. 



Synop.sis of the Species. 



A. Diameter of eye h to ? its distance from 



nostril ; interocular width more than length 



of snout C. 7'i(fii,s, p. 250. 



B. Diameter of eye | to |- its distance from 



nostril ; interocular width equal to length of 



snout. 



a. Parietals at least as large as frontal ('. mactdatns, p. 25] 



h. Parietals smaller than frontal C. Uneatn><. 



C. Jineatvs, Blanf., is only known from Singapore. 



289. Cylindrophis rnfiis. 



Anguis ruffa, Lcn/r. Spi, Jiept. p. 71. 



Anguis scytale, Russell, Ind. Serp. ii, p. ul, pis. xxvii, xxviii. 

 Cylindrophis resplendens, Woyl, Icon. Amph, pi. v, fig. 1. 

 Cylindrophis melanotus. Waql. L c. (annot.) : Duin. S)- Bihr. Eip. 

 'Gen. \\, p. 592. 



