150 UROPELTID ®. 
the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Ventrals twice as 
broad as the contiguous scales, 174-188. Subcaudals 8-12. Tail 
round or slightly compressed, the terminal seute very small and 
bicuspid ; caudal scales smooth or with very faint keels. Purplish 
brown above, each scale edged with darker, with transverse series 
of small yellow, black-edged ocelli; sides and lower parts with 
large alternating black and yellow spots or cross bands. 
Total length 320 millim. 
Tinnevelly and Madura Hills, 3000-5000 feet, 8. India. 
a. ¢ (V.183; ©.12). Madura Hills. Col. Beddome[C.]. (Type.) 
b-d. 6 (V.174,177; —‘Tinnevelly Hills. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
7. Silybura ocellata. 
Silybura ocellata, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 226, and 
Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1863, fig. ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. 
p- 190, pl. xvii. fig. If (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 138 
(1876); Beddome, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 17; 
Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 262, fig. (1890). 
—— ochracea, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 801, and Ann. 
& Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. p. 17. 
—— dupeni, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 801. 
Snout pointed; rostral about one fourth the length of the 
shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above longer than 
its distance from the frontal; nasals forming a suture behind the 
rostral; frontal usually longer than broad. Eye very small, hardly 
one third the length of the ocular. Diameter of body 30 to 46 
times in the total length. 17 scales round the middle of the body, 
19 behind the head. Ventrals about twice as large as the con- 
tiguous scales, 193-234. Subcaudals 6-11. Tail round or slightly 
flattened, the terminal scute with two small points; scales on the 
upper surface of the tail strongly pluricarinate. Yellowish or 
brown above, usually with transverse series of small yellow black- 
edged ocelli; belly brown. with large yellow spots or cross bands, 
or yellow mottled or blotched with brown. 
Total length 500 millim. 
Anamallay, Nilgherry, and Tinnevelly Mountains, 2000-4500 feet. 
a. 2 (V. 199; C. 8). Walaghat, Nilgherries, Col. Beddome [C.}. 
3500 feet. (One of the types.) 
b. 3 (V. 197; C.10). Nilgherries. 
2 °) At 197, 196; Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
8%) 2 , 
é, fy ha. 3 (V. 223; Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
C. 9) & 9 (V. 225, ” (Types of S. ochracea.) 
229, 220, 230; ©. 8, 6, 
7,7). 
k. fg (V. 231; C. 10). Neliamputty, Anamal- Col. Beddome [C.]. 
lays, ft, (Type of S. dupeni.) 
