33. ASPIDURA. 311 
No preocular ; supraocular not half length 
OS er 2. copii, p. 311. 
6. Only the upper postocular in contact with the parietal; 
ventrals 1U6-111.............. 3. guentheri, p. 312. 
B. Scales in 15 rows ................ 4. trachyprocta, p. 313. 
1. Aspidura brachyorrhus. 
Been eenrcethos, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 517. 
scytale, Schleg. Lh hye. Serp. Ms 42 (1837). 
Aspidura scytale, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 138 Abia’. 
—— brachyorrhos, why —— Cat. 1858). 90, and 
— scytale, ‘an, Arch 205) st hys. ii. 1 an 
Icon. Ophid. 13, pl. it i ii. fig. 2 (186 ses 
—— brachyorrhos, Oude Rept. Brit Ind. p. 202 (1864) ; Theod. 
Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 143° (1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 
p. 288, fig. (1890). 
Rostral small, deeper than broad, scarcely visible from above ; 
frontal a little longer than ite distance from the end of the snout, 
two thirds the length of the parietals ; supraocular more than half 
the length of the frontal; prefrontals in contact with the second 
and third upper labials, separated from the eye by a preocular ; 
two postoculars, lower largest, both in contact with the parietal ; 
temporals 1+2; six upper labials, first smallest, sixth largest, 
fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields; posterior chin-shields small and scale-like. 
Seales in 17 rows, all perfectly smooth. Ventrals 139-154; anal 
entire; subcaudals 27-38. Pale yellowish or reddish brown above, 
with four more or less indistinct darker longitudinal streaks and a 
vertebral series of blackish dots; an oblique blackish cross band on 
each side of the nape; belly uniform yellowish, tail more or less 
abundantly freckled with brown. 
Total length 360 millim. ; tail 40. 
Ceylon. 
a. 9 (V. 144; C.27). Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. 
bk 3d (V. 141, 142, 139; C. 38,37,?), Ceylon. 
a Q (V. 154, 152, 147; C. 30, 38, 
. 29), & yg. (V. 148, 141, 142; 
| C. 82, 35, 35). 
2. Aspidura copii. 
idura brachyorrhos, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 14 (1858). 
a copii, Giinth. Rep. Brit. Ind. p "508, pl. xviii. 4g E (1864); 
Theob, Cat, Rept. Brit, Ind. p. 143 tis76), Bouleng. Faun. Ind., 
Rept. p. 289 (1390). 
Rostral small, deeper than broad, not visible from above ; frontal 
a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout, three 
fifths the length of the parietals; supraocular very small, not half 
the length of the frontal; prwfrontals in contact with the second, 
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