166 UROPELTID®. 
h-i. Yg. (V. 164, 163; Madras Hills. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
©. 14, 13). (Types of P. bilineatus. 
k-l. Yg. (V. 162, 168; Devacolum, Travancore Pol. Beddome [C.). 
C. 11, 10). Hills, 
2. Platyplectrurus madurensis. (Prare XI. fig. 2.) 
Piatyplectrurus madurensis, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 167, 
and Ann. & Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 33; Bouleng. Faun. Ina., 
Rept, p. 274 (1890). 
Very closely allied to the preceding, but head-shields rather shorter 
and supraoculars not longer than the prefrontals, Diameter of 
body 38 to 42 times in the total length. Ventrals 158-175 ; sub- 
caudals 10-15. In one of the specimens the temporal is anoma- 
lously fused with the fourth labial. Above a nacreous purplish 
brown; ventrals and the two adjoining series of scales on each side 
white in the centre, purplish brown on the borders. 
Total length 350 millim. 
Pulney and Travancore Hills (4000-6000 feet). 
a, b-d. 3 (V. 158; 0.15) & Pulney Hills, 6000 ft. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
9 (V. 170,175, 165; 0.11, (Types.) 
10, 10). 
3. Platyplectrurus sanguineus. 
Plectrurus sanguineus, Beddome, Madras Quart. Journ. Med. Se. 
1867, p. 14, fig. ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 136 (1876). 
Platyplectrurus hewstoni, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1876, p. 701. 
Plectrurus scabricauda, Theob. 1. ¢. 
2 ae sanguineus, Beddome, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, 
: travancoricus, Beddome, l. ¢. p. 29. 
Platyplectrurus sanguineus, Bouleng, Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 274 (1890). 
Snout obtuse; rostral small, visible from above; frontal longer 
than broad; supraocular not or scarcely larger than the eye, 
as long as or shorter than the prefrontals; temporal about half 
the length of the parietals. Diameter of the body 22 to 28 times 
in the total length. 15 scales round the middle of the body, 17 
behind the head. Ventrals nearly twice as broad as the contiguous 
scales, 120-150. Subcaudals 5-10. Caudal scales smooth or 
faintly keeled in the females; all the caudals and the last ventrals 
more or less distinctly pluricarinate i in the males; tail ending in a 
simple compressed point. Brown or purplish red above ; belly red, 
uniform or more or less blotched with black. 
Total length 220 millim. 
Anamallays, Wynad, and Travancore Hills (3000-4700 feet). 
a-f. 3 (V.128; ©. 9), 9 Anamallays, 4000 ft. Col. Beddome [C.). 
wv ‘ak 147, 181; ©.6, (Types.) 
yg. (Vv. 135, : 
Tb. 9,8). 
