156 



■PKOPELTIM?. 



strongly bi- or trlcarinate scales ; terminal scute with a transverse 

 ridge but no points. Blackish brown, with a more or less marked 

 bright red band along each side. 



Total length 400 millim. 



Travancore Hills and Anamallays. 



«. 5 (V. 165 ; C. 6). Travancore Hills. 1 /-. i -d jj rr^ -i 



b, c. c? CV. 172 ; C. 8) Anamallays. t Col. lieddome [0.]. 



& hgr. (V. 169 ; C. 6). j (Types.) 



17. Silybura myhendrae. (Plate IX. fig. 1.) 



Silvbura nilgherriensis, var. myhendrae, Beddome, Ann. <^ Mao. N. 



H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 15. 

 myhendrae, Bouleng, Faun, Ind., Rept. p. 267 (1890). 



Snout obtuse ; rostral one fourth or not quite one third the length 

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

 slightly longer than its distance from the frontal ; nasals in contact ; 

 frontal slightly longer than broad. Eye somewhat more than half 

 the length of the ocular. Diameter of body 25 to 32 times in the 

 total length, 17 scales round the middle of the body, 19 behind 

 the head. Yentrals twice as broad as the contiguous scales, 139-153. 

 Subcaudals 7-8. Tail obliquely truncate, flat above, with strongly 

 bi- or tricarinate scales ; terminal scute with a transverse ridge, 

 indistinctly bicuspid, rounded in the young. Dark purplish brown 

 above, each scale with a crescentic yellowish posterior border ; 

 three or four dark transverse blotches behind the head ; lower parts 

 yellowish, with small purplish-brown spots in the adult, with large 

 rhomboidal transverse blackish blotches in the young. 



Total length 335 millim. 



Travancore. 



«. 2 (V. 139; C. 7). Myhendra Mountain, Col. Beddome [C.]. 



S. Travancore. (One of the types.) 



b. Yg. (V. 148 ; C. 8). Trevandrum. H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



18. Silybura madurensis. (Plate IX. fig. 2.) 



Silybura madurensis, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 802; 



Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 267 (1890). 

 nilgherriensis, vars. arcticeps, part., et picta, Beddome, Ann. 



Sf Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 16. 



Snout obtusely pointed ; rostral about one fourth 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 behind the 

 rostral ; frontal longer than broad. Eye measuring about half the 

 length of the ocular. Diameter of body 30 to 32 times in the total 

 length. 17 scales round the middle of the body, 19 behind the 

 head. Ventrals twice as large as the contiguous scales, 142-150. 

 Subcaudals 7-9. End of tail flat above, obliquely truncate, with 



