262 



UROPELTIDyE. 



Dark brown or black, ^Yith. several deep red blotches along the 

 sides of the anterior portion of the trunk and about the tail, 

 rarely also along the whole of the body. 



Total length 15 inches. 



Hab. Anaimalai Hills, 6000 to 7000 feet. 



303. Silybura liura. 



Silvbura liura, Gihit/i. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 228, pi. xxxi, fig. B ; 

 Beddome, A. M. N. H. (5) xvii, 1880, p. 18. 



Snout obtusely pointed ; rostral about oue third 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 than broad. Eye small, not half the length of the ocular. 

 Diameter of body 32 to 38 times in the total length. 17 scales 

 round the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Yeutrals twice 

 as broad as the contiguous scales, 174-188 ; subcaudals 8-12. 

 Tail round or slightly compressed, the terminal scute very small 

 and bicuspid ; caudal scales smooth or with very faint keels. 

 Purplish brown above, each scale edged with darker, with trans- 

 verse series of small yellow, black-edged ocelli ; sides and lower 

 parts with large alternating black and yellow spots or cross bands. 



Total length 13 inches. 



Hah. Tinnevelly and Madura Hills, 3000-5000 feet. 



304. Silybura ocellata. 



Silybura ocellata, Beddome, P. Z. S. 186-3, p. 220, atid Madras Journ. 



Med. Sc. 180.3 ; Gihith. Bept. B. I. p. 190, pi. xvii, fig. E ; Theoh. 



Cat. p. 133; Beddome, A. M. N. H. (5) xvii, 1880, p. 17. 

 Silybura ochracea, Beddome, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 801 ; id. A. 31. N. H. 



(o) xvii, p. 17. 

 Silybura dupeni, Beddome, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 801. 



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Fig. %2.— Silybura oceUcita. 



Snout pointed ; rostral about one fourth the length ot the 

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



