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snout ; frontal usually a little smaller than the supraocular or the 
parietal; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye. 
Scales in 19 or 21 rows. Ventrals not twice as large as the con- 
tiguous scales, 189-212; anal divided; subcaudals 4-6. Above, 
with black network enclosing two series of large reddish-brown spots 
along the back; lower parts white, variegated with black. 
Total length 350 millim. 
Ceylon. 
a. 9 (V. 212; C. 5). Trincomalee. Col. Yerbury [P.}. 
b. 2 (V. 201; C. 5). Ceylon. Sir J. Banks [P.]. 
e. . (V.189; C.5). Ceylon. R. Templeton, Esq. [ P.]. 
d. .(V. 192; C.5). Ceylon. 
53 (: 198, 196 ; P Dr. P. Russell [P.}. 
g. 2 (V. 198; ©. 4). —s Zoological Society. 
3. Cylindrophis lineatus. 
Cylindrophis lineatus, Blanf. Proc. Zool, Soc. 1881, p. 217, pl. xx. 
Diameter of the eye about one fourth its distance from the 
nostril; the distance between the eyes equals the length of the 
snout ; frontal about as large as the suprocular and a little larger 
than the parietals; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the 
eye. Scales in 21 rows. Ventrals nearly twice as large as the 
contiguous scales, 215; anal divided; subcaudals 9. Blackish 
brown above, with two white stripes; belly white, with alter- 
nating black cross bands ; head and tail yellowish. 
Total length 730 millim. 
Singapore. 
Fam. 5. VROPELTIDE *. 
east agg part., Fitzinger, Neue Class. Rept. p. 25, 1826. 
ropeltacea, J. Miiller, Zeitschr. f. Physiol. iv. p. 270, 1832. 
Uropeltide, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 140, 1845. 
Upérolissiens, Duméril, Mém. Ac. Se. xxiii. p. 443, 1853; Duméril 
§ Bibron, Erp. Gén. vii. p. 144, 1854, 
Uropeltidw, Jan, Elenco sist, Ofid. p. 16, 1863. 
Uropeltide, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 182, 1864. 
Uropeltide, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 230. 
Rhinophidw, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, xxiii. p. 482, 1886. 
Uropeltidwe, Boulenger, Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 251, 1890, 
Cranial bones solidly united; transpalatine present ; pterygoid 
not extending to quadrate or mandible ; no supratemporal ; quadrate 
* The following names in Jerdon’s Catalogue of Indian Reptiles (Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1854, p. 527) refer, in probability, to Snakes of this 
family :— 
C Jindrophis curticeps, Cylindrophis macroscelis, Pilidion? montanum, Uro- 
peltis affinis, Xenopeltis? trivirgatus.. All from the Nilgherries. 
