XENOrELTIDiE. 167 



g-h. Yg. (V. 142, 120; C. Anamallaya. Col. Beddome [C.l. 



8 81 



i-k! 2 (V. 147, 149 ; C. Anamallays, 4700 ft. W. Davison, Esq. 



7, 8). [P.]. 



I. 2 (V. 123 ; C. 5). Wynad, 3000 ft. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Type of P. hnvstojii.) 



?«. ? (V. 127; C. 7). AVvnad. Col. Beddome [CI. 



n-q. c? (V. 132 ; C. 8) & Travaucore liills, Col. Beddome [C.]. 



2 (V. 135, 135, 130; C. 3000-4000 ft. (Types of 7'. tramncoricus.) 



6, 7, 7). 



r-t Plgr. (V. 139, 147; C. High range of Tra- II. S. Ferguson, Esq. 



10, 10) & yg. (V. 150 ; C. vancore Hills. [P.I. 



10). 



Fam. G. XENOPELTID^. 



Imbricatfe, part., Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 510. 



Aglyphodontes Holodoutiens, part., Dumeril, Mem. Ac. Sc. xxiii. 



p. 424, 1853. 

 Tortri'cidoe, part., Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 18, 1803. 

 Xenopeltidse, Cb/>e, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 230. 

 XenopeltidcC, Gihither, Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 180, 18G4. 

 Xeuopeltidie, Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii. p. 482, 1886. 

 Xenopeltidae, Boulenger, Faun. Ltd., Rept. p. 275, 1890. 



Cranial bones more or less solidly united; transpalatine present; 

 pterygoid extending to quadrate ; supratcmporal present, suspeiiding 

 cjuadrate ; prtefrontal in contact with nasal. Mandible -without 

 coronoid bone. Teeth' in jaAvs, palate, and pra^maxillary. 



A single genus, inhabiting South-eastern Asia. 



1. XENOPELTIS. 



Xenopeltis, Beinw. in Boie, /.s/.s-, 1827, p. 564 ; Bum. ^- Bibr. Erp. 



Gen. \\\. ^. m (1854); Giinth. Bept. Brit. hid. p. 180 (1864); 



Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 57 (1865) ; Boukny. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 276 



(1890). 

 Tortrix, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 1 (1837). 



Teeth small, equal, closely set, and very numerous (4 on each 

 side of the proemaxillary, 33-38 in each maxillary, 35 or 36 in 

 each ramus of the mandible). Dentary bone attached loosely 

 to the apex of the articular and movable on it. Head not 

 distinct from neck ; eye small, with vertically elliptic pupil. 

 Nostril between two small nasals ; frontal in contact with a 

 large agygous interparietal shield, which is in the middle between 

 four parietals. A mental groove. Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, 

 in 15 rows; ventrals large; tail short, subcaudals in two row^s. 



South-eastern Asia. 



