250 ILTSHD^E. 



nostril in a single nasal, which forms a suture with its fellow 

 behind the rostral ; no loreal or praeocular ; a small postocular. 

 Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, in 19 or 21 rows ; ventrals feebly 

 enlarged. Tail extremely short and blunt. 



Burrowing snakes, only occasionally found above ground. Feeding 

 on insects, worms, and small mammals. Ovoviviparous. 



Fig. 78. Head of Cylindrophis nifus. 



Synopsis of the Species, 



A. Diameter of eye | to |- its distance from 



nostril ; interocular width more than length 



of snout C. . rufiifi, p. 250. 



B. Diameter of eye | to its distance from 



nostril ; interocular width equal to length of 



snout. 



a. Parietals at least as large as frontal C. maculatus, p. 251 . 



l>. Parietals smaller than frontal C. lineatus. 



C. Iweahts, Blanf., is only known from Singapore. 



289. Cylindrophis rufus. 



Anguis ruffa, Law: Syn. Kept. p. 71. 



Anguis scytale, Russell, Ind. Serp. ii, p. 81, pis. xxvii, xxviii. 

 Cylindrophis resplendens, Wagl. Icon. Amph. pi. v, fig. 1. 

 Cylindrophis melanotus. Wagl. I. c. (annot.) ; Durn. Sf Bibr. Erp. 

 Gtn. ^ p. 592. 



