| 3. sILyBurRA. 147 
longer than broad. Eye small, not half the length of the ocular. 
Diameter of body 22 to 31 times in the total length. Scales in 
17 rows round the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Ven- 
trals but little larger than the contiguous scales, 141-166. Sub- 
caudals 6-10. Tail round or slightly compressed, the terminal 
seute with two small spines ; caudal scales with very faint keels. 
Dark brown, with yellow spots more or less confluent into a lateral 
band. In three young specimens in the collection (km) the colour 
is yellow, each scale of the upper surface, chin, and tail with a 
dark brown spot. 
Total length 270 millim. 
Ceylon (Central Provinces). 
a-d. ay (V. 157,152; C.10,10) Ceylon. (Types.) 
165; C. 5, 
eid A a iO, 157; ©. 10,9) Ceylon. G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. 
& 2. 162, 166, 162 ; C. 6, [P.}. 
PG, 
k, -m. Yg. (V. 158, 141,144; Ceylon. G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. 
O'5, 10° 9), Pj. Bed 
n. & (V. 153; ©. 10). Ceylon. C. . [P.]. 
o. d (V. 152; C. 9). Ceylon. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
p. o (V. 155; C. 9). Ceylon. 
gq. Skeleton. Ceylon, 
2. Silybura pulneyensis. 
—<.. Proe. Zool, Soc. 1863, p. 228, 
nied yensis, Giinth. yy Brit. Ind. er . XVvii. 
opis puley Theob. Cat, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 13 sz) 
Sily yura ae Theod. op. cit. p. 135. 
—— guentheri, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 801, ant dad 
Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. =i" 
—— pulneyensis, Beddome, Ann. wee. H. (5) xvii. 
ities, Ind., Rept. p. 500 (1 ); Boettg. Ber. 
Ver, Nat. 1892, p. 76. 
Snout obtusely pointed ; rostral about one fourth the length of 
the- shielded part of the head, longer than its distance from the 
frontal, entirely separating the ‘nasals ; frontal longer than broad. 
Eye half the length of the ocular. Diameter of body 30 to 38 
times in the total length. 17 scales round the middle of the body, 
19 behind the head. Ventrals about twice as large as the conti- 
ious scales, 161-180. Subcaudals 6-13. Tail somewhat com- 
pressed, the terminal scute with two small points; usually some of 
the posinel scales with faint keels. Brown, with a few minute 
_ yellow specks on the back ; a yellow lateral band anteriorly; belly 
with ies yellow, usually alternating, spots or cross bands. In one 
men (S. , Bedd.) the belly is uniform yellow. 
eC 380 millim. 
 Pulney and Cumbum Hills (Madura District), Southern India, 
5000-7000 feet. 
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