310 COLTJBRID.T;. 



Aspidura cariiiafa, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. P/a/s. ii. 1862, p. 30, aijd 



Icon. Gen. 13, pi. i. fig. 5 (1865). 

 coylouensis, Theob. Cat. p. 143 (1876). 



liostral a little deeper than broad, not visible from above ; 

 frontal as long as its distance from the end of the snout, three 

 fifths the length of the parietals ; pra^frontals in contact vrith the 

 second and third upper labials ; one prse- and two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2; seven upper labials, fourth, or third and fourth, 

 entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields ; posterior chin-shields small, scale-like. Scales elongate, 

 smooth on the nape, moderately keeled on the anterior half of the 

 back, sharply keeled on the posterior half and on the tail. Yeiitrals 

 177-207; anal single; subcaudals 37-56. Brown above, with a 

 black vertebral line, and, on each side, a series of small black spots ; 

 an oblique yellowish, black-edged band on each side of the nape, 

 which may disappear in the adult ; lower surface uniform yellowish. 



Total length 430 millim. ; tail 60. 



Ceylon. 



a. cJ (V. 180; C. 56). Ceylon. R. Templeton, 1 



Esq. [P.]. (Types.) 

 />. 2 (V. 207 ; C. 50). Ceylon. \ 



c. J (V. 177 ; C. 42). Ce"ylon. 

 (f-f. 2 (V. 192,188; Pundulova, 4000 f t. E. E. Green, Esq. [P.]. 



C. 37, 40) & yg. (V. 

 196 ; C. 39). ' ' 



33. ASPIDURA. 



Aspidura, IVac/l. Si/sf. Amph. p. 191 (1830) ; iJum. Sf Bihr. Erp. Gen. 



vii. p. 127 (1854) ; Giinf/i. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 14 (1858), and Rept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 202 (1864) ; Bmdeng. Favn. hid., Rept. p. 288 (1890). 

 Calaiuaria, part., Schleg. Ph;/s. Serp. ii. p. 25 (1837). 

 Aspidura, part., Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 29. 



Maxillary teeth about 20, small, equal ; posterior mandibular 

 teeth a little shorter than the anterior. Head not distinct from 

 neck ; eye small, with round pupil ; nostril between two small 

 nasals and the first labial : no loreal : a single internasal ; prse- 

 ocuiar present or absent. Body cjlindrical ; scales smooth, without 

 apical pits, in 15 or 17 rows ; ventrals rounded ; tail short ; sub- 

 caudals single. Hypapophyses developed tliroughout the vertebral 

 column. 



Ceylon. 



Synopsis of the Sj^ecies. 

 A. Scales in 17 rows. 



a. Both postoculars in contact with the parietal ; ventrals 125- 

 150. 



A prseocular : supraocular more than half 



length of frontal 1. brachyorrhus, p. 31 1. 



