150 ITROPELTID^. 



the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Ventrals twice as 

 broad as the coutiguous 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 transverse series 

 of small yellow, black-edged ocelli ; sides and lower parts with 

 large alternating black and yellow spots or cross bands. 



Total length 320 millim. 



Tinnevelly and Madura HiUs, 3000-5000 feet, S. India. 



«. c? (V. 183; C.12). Madura Hills. Col. Beddome [C.]. (Type.) 

 h-d. S (V. 174, 177; Tinnevelly Hills. Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 0. 12, 12) & $ 



(V. 188; C. 8). 



7. Silybura ocellata. 



Silybura ocellata, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G3, p. 226, a7id 

 Madras Joiim. Med. Sc. 1863, fig. ; Gi'mth. Rept. Brit. hid. 

 p. 190, pi. xvii. fig. E (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 133 

 (1876) ; Beddome, Ann. ^' Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 17 ; 

 Boulenrj. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 262, fig. (1890). 



ocbracea, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, .p. 801, and Ann. 



^- Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. p. 17. 



dupeni, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 801. 



Snout pointed ; rostral about one fourth the length of the 

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

 its distance from the frontal ; nasals forming a suture behind the 

 rostral ; frontal usually longer than broad. Eye very small, hardly 

 one third the length of the ocular. Diameter of body 30 to 46 

 times in the total length. 17 scales round the middle of the body, 

 19 behind the head. Ventrals about twice as large as the con- 

 tiguous scales, 193-234. Subcaudals 6-11. Tail round or slightly 

 flattened, the terminal scute with two small points ; scales on the 

 upper surface of the tail strongly pluricarinate. Yellowish or 

 brown above, usually with transverse series of small yellow black- 

 edged ocelli ; belly brown with large yellow spots or cross bands, 

 or yellow mottled or blotched with brown. 



Total length 500 millim. 



Anamallay, Nilgherry, and Tinnevelly Mountains, 2000-4500 feet. 



a. $ (V. 199 ; C. 8). Walagliat, NUgherries, Col. Beddome [C.]. 



3500 feet. (One of the tvpes.) 



h. S (V. 197 ; C. 10). Nilgherries. 



e-d. $ (V. 197, 196 ; Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.j. 



C 8 7^ 

 e, f-gl h-i. S (V. 223 ; Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



C. 9) & $ (V. 225, ' {Ty^GS oi S. ochracea.) 



229,220,230; C. 8, 6, 



7,7). 

 li. (S (V. 231 ; C. 10). Neliamputty, Anamal- Col. Beddome [C.]. 



lays, 3000 ft, (Type of S. dupeni.) 



