160 rEOPELTTDiE. 



a. $ (V. 140; C. 9). ? (Type.) 



j_/j. 2 (V. 133, 131, 131 ; Matlieran. Dr. Leith [P.]. 



C. 8, 9, 7) & yg. (V. 



128, 128, 132, 130; C. 



8,8,8,9). 



4. PSEUDOPLECTRURUS. 



Plectrurus, part., Beddome, Ann. $;■ Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 24. 

 Pseudoplectrurus, Bouleng. Faun. Ind,, Rept. p. 270 (1890). 



Eye small, in the ocular ; no supraocular. Tail compressed, with 

 the terminal scute compressed and with two superposed simple or 

 bifid points. 



Southern India. 



1. Pseudoplectrurus canaricus. (Plate X. fig. 1.) 



Silybura canarica, Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870. 

 Plectrurus canaricus, Gilnth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 229 ; Theob. 



Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 137 (1876) ; Beddome, Ann. 8f Mag. N. 



H. (6) xvii. 1886, p. 27. 

 Pseudoplectrurus canaricus, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 270 



(1890). 



Snout obtuse ; rostral hardly 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 longer than 

 broad. Eye not half the length of the ocular. Diameter of body 

 32 to 43 times in the total length. 15 scales round the middle of 

 the body, 19 behind the head. Ventrals not twice as large as the 

 contiguous scales, 172-188. Subcaudals 6-13. Upper caudal scales 

 smooth or feebly pluricarinate. Brownish violet, each scale usually 

 paler in the centre ; with or without small yellow spots on the back ; 

 lips yellow ; some yellow blotches on each side of the anterior 

 portion of the body ; lower surface of tail yellow, with or without a 

 black median streak. 



Total length 430 millim. 



Mountains of South Canara. 



a, h-e. (S (V. 180, 175, Kudra Mukh, near Col. Beddome [C.]. 



176 ; C. 11, 12, 13), 9 Mangalore, 6000 (Types.) 



(V. 185; C. 7), & yg. feet. 



(V. 172 ; C. 12). 

 /•-». S (V. 182, 175, 181, Kudra Mukh, 6200 E. Pringle, Esq. [P.]. 



178, 179 ; C. 11, 11, 12, feet. 



12,12), $ (V.188;C. 



7), & yg. (V. 176, 183, 



182, 179; C. 11, 13, 12, 



8). 



5. PLECTRURUS. 



Plectrurus, Dum. 8f Bibr. Erp. Gh\. vii. p. 166 (1854) ; Peters, TJro- 

 pelt.^. 22 (1861) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 192 (1864) ; Bouleng. 

 Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 270 (1890). 



Maudia, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 261. 



Plectrurus, part., Beddoine, Ann. i^- May. N. H, (5) xvii. 1886, p. 24. 



