3. SILTBURA. 



159 



entirely brown ; lower surface of tail brown or black in the middle, 

 yellow on the sides. 



Total length 450 millim. 



Mountains of Southern India. 



a. S (V. 134; C. 11). 



b-c. 2 (V. 144, 143 ; C. 

 8,9). 



d. S (V. 142 ; C. 9). 



e. c7 (V. 136; CIO). 



/. Yg. (V. 135; C.9). 



(J. Yg. (V. 132; C.9). 

 h. S (V. 125 ; C. 10). 

 i. Hgr. (V. 122; C.9). 



Nilgherries. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Type of S. 7iilgherriensis.) 

 Nilgherries. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



Nilgherries. 

 Gudalur, Wynad, 



3000 feet. 

 Wynad, 3500 feet. 



Balarangams. 

 Pulney Hills. 

 Anamallays. 



k-m, n. (S (V. 123, 127 ; Anamallays, 



C. 10, 9) & vg. (V. 132, feet. 



145 ; C. 9, 8). 

 o-r. S (V. 146, 140, 142 ; Shevaroys. 



C. 10, 11, 10) & hgr. 



(V. 140 ; C. 9). 

 s. S (V. 120; C.9). 



4000 



t. S (V. 142 ; C. 10). 



ti. 2 , bad state. 



V. <S (V. 135 ; C. 12). 



High Range, Travau- 



core. 

 Malabar. 

 Malabar. 

 Deccan (?). 



E. Pringle, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 (Type of ♦S'. annulata.) 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.J. 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Type of ^S". brevis.) 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 



Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 (Type of S. shoi'tii.) 



H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 



[P-] 

 Col. Beddome [C.l. 

 Col. Beddome [C.l. 

 Col. Sykes [P.]. 

 (Type of S. bicatenata.) 



22. Silybura macrolepis. 



Silybura macrolepis, Peto-s, Mo7i. Berl. Ac. 1861, p. 904; Gilnth. 

 Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 189, pi. x\ai. fig. B (1864) ; Theoh. Cat. Rept. 

 Brit. Ind. p. 132 (1876) ; Beddome, Ann. S,- Mag. H. (5) xvii. 

 1886, p. 24 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 269 (1890). 



Snout rounded ; rostral not one fourth the length of the shielded 

 part of the head, the portion visible from above shorter than its 

 distance from the frontal ; nasals in contact ; frontal as broad as 

 long or slightly longer than broad. Eye more than half the length 

 of the ocular. Diameter of body 24 to 29 times in the total length. 

 15 scales round the middle of the body, 17 behind the head. 

 Yentrals twice as large as the contiguous scales, 128-140. Sub- 

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

 strongly bicarinate scales ; terminal scute with a transverse ridge 

 and two points. Black or dark purplish brown, each scale with a 

 lighter edge ; a short but broad yellow band on the lips and sides of 

 neck, continued as a series of two to five large spots ; a yellow band 

 along each side of the tail. 



Total length 295 millim. 



Bombay Hills. 



