29. BRACHYORRHUs. 
120-131; anal entire; subeaudals 17-31. Dark brown above, 
uniform or with three rather indistinct darker Jongitudinal lines, 
and a yellowish collar; lower surfaces uniform dark brown. 
Total length 230 millim. ; tail 20. 
Travancore and Madura Hills. 
a-c. 5 (V.118,120; C. _—_‘ Travancore. Col. Beddome [C.}. 
Gin) & g (V. 129 ; (Types.) 
¢ y 28 131; C. 17). Travancore. Col. Beddome [ Tou. 
3 (V. 129; C, 31). Madura Hills, 5000 Col. Beddome 
feet. (Type of Xylophis fades. ) 
29. BRACHYORRHUS. 
Brachyorrhos, Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 519; Dum. § Bibr. Erp. Gén. vii. 
p. 510 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. Col, Sn. p- 13 (1858); Jan, Arch. Zool. 
Brachyorthes, part, Wepi. 5 h. p. 190 (1830 
orrhos, agl. Syst. or ( . 
Calamara, cake Sokcer Phys. Serp. ii a 95 (1837). 
Calamophis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 135. 
Mainophis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 'S. W.ii. 1877, p. 36. 
Atractocephalus, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 1879, p- 62. 
Oxyorrhos, Fischer, Verh. nat. Ver. Hamb. (2) iii. 1879, p- 89. 
Maxillary teeth 20 to 22, subequal; posterior mandibular teeth a 
little shorter than the anterior. Head not distinct from neck; eye 
small, with vertically subelliptic pupil; nostril pierced in a small, 
single or divided nasal; a pair of internasals (sometimes united); 
no loreal; prwocular present or absent. Body cylindrical; scales 
smooth, without apical pits, in 17 or 19 rows; ventrals rounded. 
Tail short; subcaudals in two rows. Hypapophyses developed 
throughout. the vertebral column. 
Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. 
1. Brachyorrhus albus. 
Coluber albus, Linn, Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 24, pl. xiv. fig. 2 (1754), and 
S. N. i. p. 878 (1766); Merrem, Beitr. Gesch. Amph. ii. p. 30, 
pl. vii. (1790); Daud. Rept. vii. p. 49 (1803). 
—— brachyurus, bogey Zool. iii. p. 470 (1802); Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. 
Vergl. Anat. 89 (1820). 
orrhos al Boie, Isis, 1827 ae 522 ; Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. o 
); Giinth. Cat. p. 13 (1858); Jan, Icon. Gén. 13, 
4 & 5 (1865); Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii. 878, 
p- 385. 
—— kuhlii, Boie, t. ¢. p. 540 
Oe 21-23 ST), part., Schleg. Phys. Serp, ii, p. 33, pl. i. 
ax gastrotenia, Bleek, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl, Ind. xxii. 1860, 
cainophis jobiensis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 135. 
Mainophis robusta, Macleay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S, W. ii. 1877, p. 36. 
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