UKOPELTID^. 137 



snout ; frontal usually a little smaller than the supraocular or the 

 parietal ; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye. 

 Scales in 19 or 21 rows. Ventrals not twice as large as the con- 

 tiguous scales, 189-212; anal divided; subcaudals 4-G. Above, 

 with black network enclosing two scries of large reddish-brown spots 

 along the back ; lower parts white, variegated with black. 



Total length 350 milliiu. 



Ceylon. 



a. 2 (V. 212 ; C. 5). Trincomalee. Col. Yevbury [P.]. 



b. 2 (V. 201 ; C. 5). Cevlon. Sir J. Banks [P.]. 



c. Ilgr. (V. 189 ; C. B). Ce^ lou. R. Templeton, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Hgr. (V. 192; Co). CeVlon. 



e-f. 5 (V. 198, 196; —^ ? Dr. P. Russell [P.]. 



C. G, 6). 

 ff. 2 (V. 198; C. 4). ? Zoological Society. 



3. Cylindrophis lineatus. 



Cyliudrophis lint'atus, Bhuif. Proc. Zoul. Sue. 1881, p. 217, pi. xx. 



Diameter of the eye about one fourth its distance from the 

 nostril ; the distance between the eyes equals the length of the 

 snout ; frontal about as large as the suprocular and a little larger 

 than the parietals ; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the 

 eye. Scales in 21 rows. Yentrals nearly twice as large as the 

 contiguous scales, 215 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 9. Blackish 

 brown above, with two white stripes ; belly white, with alter- 

 nating black cross bands ; head and tail yellowish. 



Total length 730 raillim. 



Singapore. 



Fam. 5. UEOPELTIDiE *. 



Typlilopoidea, part., Fitziuffei; Neue Class. Rept. p. 2o, 1826. 

 Uropeltacea, J. Mi'iller, Zeitschr.f. Phi/siol. iv. p. 270, 1832. 

 UropeltidiB, Oray, Cat. Liz. p. 140, 184o. 

 Uperolissiens, Dumeril, Mem. Ac. ISc. xxiii. p. 443, 1853 ; Dumeril 



Sf Bihron, Erp. Gen. vii. p. 144, 1854. 

 Uropeltidne, Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 16, 1863. 

 Uropeltidaj, Giinther, liept. Brit. hid. p. 182, 1864. 

 Uropeltidc-e, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 230. 

 Ill)inophid;«, Cope, Proc. Avier. Philos. Sac. xxiii. p. 482, 1886. 

 Uropeltidai, Boulenger, Faun. Itid., Rept. p. 251, 1890. 



Cranial bones solidly united ; transpalatino present ; pterygoid 

 not extending to quadrate or mandible ; no supratemporal ; quadrate 



* The following names in Jerdon's Catalogue of Indian Reptiles (Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1854, p. 527) refer, in ail probability, to Snakes of this 

 family : — 



Cylindrophis atrticeps, Cylindrophis macroscelis, PiJidion ? montanum, Uro- 

 feltis affinis, Xenopeltis? trivirgatus. AD from the Nilgherriea. 



