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310, . COLUBRID, — 
Aspidura carinata, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 30, and 
con. Gén. 13, pl. i, fig. 5 (1865). 
ceylonensis, Theob. Cat, p. 143 (1876). 
Rostral a little deeper than broad, not visible from above; 
frontal as long as its distance from the end of the snout, three 
fifths the length of the parietals; prefrontals in contact with the 
second and third upper labials; one pre- and two postoculars ; 
temporals 14+2; seven upper labials, fourth, or third and fourth, rh 
entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields ; posterior chin-shields small, scale-like. Scales elongate, 
smooth on the nape, moderately keeled on the anterior half of the 
back, sharply keeled on the posterior half and on the tail. Ventrals 
177-207; anal single; subcaudals 37-56. Brown above, with a 
black vertebral line, and, on each side, a series of small black spots ; 
an oblique yellowish, black-edged band on each side of the nape, 
which may disappear in the adult ; lower surface uniform yellowish. 
Total length 430 millim. ; tail 60. 
Ceylon. 
a. d (V. 180; C. 56). Ceylon. R. Tem peta 
(Types.) 
b. 2 (V. 207; C. 50). Ceylon. ree 
e. 3 (V.177; C.42). Ceylon. 
d-f. Q (V. 192, 188; Punduloya, 4000ft. E. E. Green, Esq. [P.]. 
- cot a on: yg: (Vv. 
3, 39) 
33. ASPIDURA. 
Aspidura, Wagl. Syst. Amph. p.191 (1830) ; Dum. § Bibr. Erp. Gén. 
vii. p. 127 (1854); Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p- 14 (1858), and Rept. 
Brit. Ind. p. 202 (1864) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 288 (1890). . 
Calamaria, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 25 (1837). 
Aspidura, part., ‘Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii, 1862, p. 29. 
Maxillary teeth about 20, small, equal; posterior mandibular 
teeth a little shorter than the anterior. Head not distinct from 
neck; eye small, with round pupil; nostril between two small 
nasals and the first labial; no loreal; a single internasal ; pree- 
ocular present or absent. _ Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, without 
apical pits, in 15 or 17 rows; ventrals rounded ; tail short: sub- 
caudals single. Hypapophyses developed throughout the vertebral 
column, _ | 
Ceylon. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
A. Scales in 17 rows. 
a. Both postoculars in contact with the parietal ; ventrals 125- 
150. 
A preocular: supraocular more than half 
length of frontal 5....0..550 00 eam ‘1. brachyorrhus, p. 311. 3 a 
