BLTTHIA. 



287 



siibequal iu size ; temporals l + l. (Scales in 15 rows. Veutrals 

 127-135; subcaudals ;33-38. Browu, with a pale lateral baud 

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

 and yellowish band : chiu, throat, and anterior i)art of neclc 

 yellow, the rest of the lower parts red. 



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



Hah. Khasi Hills. (Unknown to me.) 



Genus BLYTHIA, 

 Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Miis. p. 44, 1868. 



Maxillary teeth about 20, anterior shortest ; posterior mandi- 

 bular teeth much shorter than the anterior. Head not distinct 

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



Fig. 92. — Head of Blythia rdicidata. 



between two very small nasals and the iii'st labial ; no loreal or pne- 

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

 13 rows ; tail short ; subcaudals in two rows. 



A single species, from the Khiisi Hills. 



This geuus is nearly equally related to Trachischlum and ^Is^^- 

 dura. 



341. Blythia reticulata. 



Calamaria reticulata, Blyth, J. A. S. />'. xxiii, 18-34, p. 287. 

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

 p. 142. 



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

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

 between the prasfrontals ; 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 



