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148 UROPELTID&, 
- V. 178; C. 6). Pulney Hills. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
Jae . (One of the ! } 
bed, e, f. g (V. 180,172, Pulney Hills. Col. Beddome [0.}. 
175; C. : 8,12) & 9 
WW i70 6. 13) ‘ Cumbum Hills, 5000 ft, Col. Bedd 18) 
g 3 (V. ; C. 138). umbum Hills . Col. ome [C.}. 
; 1 (Typo ot &. puma 
3. Silybura grandis. 
Rhinophis grandis, Beddome, Madras Quart. Journ. Med. Se. 1867, 
fig.; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 131 (1876), 
Sil aes grandis, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) i. 1868, p. 414; 
eddome, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 11; Bouleng. Faun. 
Ind., Rept. p. 261 (1890). 
Snout pointed ; rostral one third or one fourth the length of the 
shielded part of the head, longer than its distance from the frontal, 
sometimes separating the nasals ; frontal longer than broad. Eye 
very small, not half the length of the ocular. Diameter of body 
30 to 40 times in the total length. Scales in 19 rows round the 
middle of the body, 21 behind the head. Ventrals about twice as 
large as the contiguous scales, 198-218; posterior ventrals pluri- 
carinate in the male. Subcaudals 6-12. Tail round or slightly 
compressed, the terminal scute with two small spines ; caudal scales 
more or less strongly pluricarinate. Dark violet; belly with alter- 
nating large yellow spots or cross bands. 
Total length 480 millim. 
Anamallay Mountains, 8. India. 
a. 3 (V. 206; C,10). Anamallay Forests, 4000 Col. Beddome [C.}. 
feet. (Type.) 
b, e-d. g (V. 208;  Anamallay Forests,4000 Col. odasais [C.}. 
C. 10) & 9 (V. 214, feet. 
213; ©. 8, 7). 
e-m. 3 (V.198, 200; Anamallays, 4700 feet. W. Davison, Esq. 
C.10, 12), 2(V. 214, [P.]. 
206, 210, a 5 CF hs 
8, 6), & yg. (V. 205, 
218; C. fi, 7: 
n. Skeleton. Anamallays, 4700 feet. W pee Esq. 
_ 
4, Silybura petersii. (Pxare VI. fig. 1.) 
ee Peete Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 154, and Ann, § 
ag. N. H, (5) xvii. 1886, p. 22; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 
p- 261 (1890). 
Snout obtusely pointed ; rostral hardly one fourth the length of 
the shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above shorter 
than its distance from the frontal; nasals in contact; frontal longer 
than broad. Eye small, not half the length of the ocular. Dia- 
meter of body 25 to 33 times if the total length. 17 scales round — 
the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Ventrals about twice 
