3. SILYBURA. 
above, with more or less distinct transverse series of small yellow, 
plack-edged ocelli ; sides with a series of large yellow spots ; ventrals 
dark brown. 
Total length 410 millim. 
Sirumallay and Lower Pulney Hills, S. India, 
a. 2 (V.227; 0.7).  Sirumallay Hills, Ma- —_ Col. Beddome [C.]. 
dura District, 5500 ft. 
b-c. J ( Lower Pulney Hills, Col. me [C. 
ioe’? * 330; 4000 ft. (Types of S, levingii. 
12. Silybura macrorhynchus. (Puiare VIII. fig. 1.) 
sy 4g ea iE Beddome, 30, p. 10; Bouleng. Foun, nds 
at a HH, (5) xvii. 1886, p. 19; Bouleng Ind., 
Rept. p. 264 (1890). 
Snout acutely pointed, much produced ; rostral strongly com- 
pressed, keeled above, half the length of the shielded part of the 
head; nasals in contact behind the rostral; frontal as broad as 
long. Eye very small, not one third the length of the ocular. 
Diameter of body 38 times in the total length. 17 scales round the 
middle of the body and 19 behind the head. Ventrals not quite twice 
as large as the contiguous scales, 213. Subcaudals 6 (2); end of 
_ tail subtruncate, the rugose part small and rather flat, the scales 
with three to five strong keels; terminal scute bicuspid. Upper 
parts uniform brown, lower parts mixed with yellow; a yellow 
streak from the mouth along each side of the neck; a yellow streak 
on each side of the lower surface of the tail, connected with its fellow 
by a cross bar on the anal region. 
Total length 570 millim. 
Anamallays. 
a. Q(V.213; C.6). Above Ponachi, 4000 ft. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
(Type.) 
13. Silybura beddomii. 
cheery i, Giinth, A Mag. N. H. (3 1862, p. 56, 
Brit. Brit, Ind. p- 190, 9a. 24 xvii. fg FO F (ss) Theob- Cat. 
ft rit, Ind. p. 133 (1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 265 
ai, part, Bade, Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, 
Pp 
_ §Snout acutely pointed, much produced; rostral strongly com- 
_ pressed, keeled above, two fifths the length of the shielded part of 
the head ; nasals in contact behind the rostral ; frontal longer than 
broad. Eye very small, not half the length of the ocular. Dia- 
meter of body 33 to 40 times in the total length. 17 scales round 
the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Ventrals not twice as 
large as the contiguous scales, 180-188. Subcaudals 6-7 (9); 
end of tail subtruncate, convex or somewhat flattened above, the 
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