156 UROPELTID®. 
strong'y bi- or tricarinate scales; terminal scute with a transverse 
ridge but no points. Blackish brown, with a more or less marked 
bright red band along each side. 
Total length 400 millim. 
Travancore Hills and Anamallays, 
V. 165; C. 6). Travancore Hills. 
eg (V. 172; C.8) Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.], 
her. (V. 169; 0.6). (Types.) 
17. Silybura myhendre. (Prats IX. fig. 1.) 
Silybura nilgherriensis, var. myhendree, Beddome, Ann, § Mag. N. 
H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 15. 
— myhendre, Bouleng. Faun, Ind., Rept. p. 267 (1890). 
Snout obtuse ; rostral one fourth or not quite one third the length 
of the shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above 
slightly longer than its distance from the frontal ; nasals in contact ; 
frontal slightly longer than broad. Eye somewhat more than half 
the length of the ocular. Diameter of body 25 to 32 times in the 
total length. 17 scales round the middle of the body, 19 behind 
the head. Ventrals twice as broad as the contiguous scales, 189-153. 
Subcaudals 7-8. Tail obliquely truncate, flat above, with strongly 
bi- or tricarinate scales; terminal scute with a transverse ridge, 
indistinctly bicuspid, rounded in the young. Dark purplish brown 
above, each scale with a crescentic yellowish posterior border ; 
three or four dark transverse blotches behind the head ; lower parts 
yellowish, with small purplish-brown spots in the adult, with large 
rhomboidal transverse blackish blotches in the young. 
Total length 335 millim. 
Travancore. 
a. Q (V. 189; C.7). Myhendra Mountain, Col. Beddome [C.]. 
. Travancore. (One of the ¢ 4 
b. Yg. (V. 148; ©. 8). Trevandrum. ans on 
18. Silybura madurensis. (Pxare IX. fig. 2.) 
Silybura madurensis, Beddome, Proce. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 802; 
Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 267 (1890). 
—— nilgherriensis, vars, arcticeps, 5 pi et picta, Beddome, Ann. 
§ Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 1 
Snout obtusely pointed; rostral about one fourth the length of 
the shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above as long 
as its distance from the frontal; nasals in contact behind the 
rostral ; frontal longer than broad. Eye measuring about half the 
length of the ocular. Diameter of body 30 to 32 times in the total 
length. 17 scales round the middle of the body, 19 behind the 
head. Ventrals twice as large as the contiguous scales, 142-150. 
Subcaudals 7-9. End of tail flat above, obliquely truncate, with 
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