26. PtA.GIOPHOLTS. 301 



auberior, separated from each other by two scales. Scales ia 17 

 rows. Veutrals 20(3-215; anal divided ; siibcaudals 68-73. Dull 

 olive-green above and below, with four lougitudinal series of small 

 black spots on the back. 



Total length 540 millim. ; tail 95. 



Southern India. 



a. S (V. 215 ; 0. 73). Manantoddy, Wynad. Col. Beddorae [C.]. 



(Type.) 

 6. $ (V. 206; C. 68). .Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



2. Rhabdops bicolor. 



Calamaria bicolor, Bli/f.h, Joiini. As. Soc. Ben;/, xxiii. 1854, p. 289. 

 Ablabes bicolor, G'dnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 226 (1861); Anders. An. 



Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 800 (1879). 

 Grotea bicolor, Thcob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 45. 

 Pseudocyclophis bicolor, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 300 (1890). 



liostral large, more than twice as broad as deep, Just visible from 

 above ; nasal divided below the nostril ; internasal single, as long 

 as or a little shorter than tlio likewise single proet'rontal ; frontal as 

 broad as long, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, two 

 thirds the length of the parietals ; supraocular very small ; loreal 

 as long as deep ; one praeocular ; two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1 ; 

 five upper labials, the upper anglo of the third entering the eye, fifth 

 very large ; three lower labials in contact with the anterior cliin- 

 shields, which are not longer than the posterior. Scales in 1 7 rows. 

 Ventrals 199-213 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 58-77. Blackisli 

 brown above, brownish white inferiorlv. 



Total length 600 millim. ; tail 130.' 



Khasi Hills, Assam, Yunnan. 



a. S (V. 213 ; C. 77). Khisi Hills. Dr. (Iriffith. 



h. 2 (V. 199; C. ? ). Khasi Hills. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



26. PLAGIOPHOLIS. 



Maxillary short, extending fowards but slightly beyond the 

 palatine, with 16 small equal teeth ; mandibular teeth equal. Head 

 small, not distinct from neck ; eye rather small, with round pupil ; 

 no loreal, pr;iDOCular in contact with a large semidivided nasal. Body 

 short, cylindrical ; scales smooth, without pits, disposed obliquely, 

 in 15 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail short ; subcaudals partly entire, 

 partly in two rows. Hypapophyses developed throughout the ver- 

 tebral column. 



Mountains of Burma. 



1. Plagiopholis blakewayi. (Plate XIX. fig. 3.) 



Rostral as broad as deep, visible from above : internasals much 

 broader than long, a little shorter than the pnefrontals ; frontal 



