1877.) LAEUT.-CcoL. BEDDOME ON NEW UROPELTID2. 167 
2. Descriptions of three new Snakes of the Family Uropeltide 
from Southern India. By Lieut.-Col. R. H. Beppome, 
F.Z.S. 
[Received February 12, 1877.] 
PLATYPLECTRURUS MADURENSIS, 0. Sp. 
Snout much rounded and very obtuse ; rostral very small, scarcely 
reaching the surface of the head ; nasals very large, vertical, six-sided, 
not much produced behind; 3rd labial large, but 4th much 
larger; eye pretty large, surrounded by the 3rd labial, postfrontal, 
superorbital, and postocular (the latter shield sometimes confluent 
with the supraorbital); occipitals elongate ; mental very small ; the 
Ist pair of chin-shields meet behind it and have a 2nd pair between 
them and the lst ventral; an elongated temporal shield is sometimes 
present between the 4th labial and the occipital ; abdominals 149- 
170 ; anal bifid ; subcaudals 10-15 ; tail scarcely compressed, scales 
quite smooth ; terminal scale sharp-pointed, and with a sharp ridge 
on each side ; colour above a nacreous purplish-brown ; each of the 
abdominal scutes and the two lower rows of scales on each side, 
white in the centre, but with a complete ring round the outer margins 
of the same colour as the back, giving the whole belly a very uniform 
coloration. 11-14 inches long. 
Hab. About Kodiukarnal on the Pulney Mountains (Madura 
district), 600 feet elevation; very rare. 
SILYBURA DINDIGALENSIS, 0, Sp. 
Rostral large, as long as the vertical, acute and with a high ridge, 
not separating the nasals, which are very large; eye very small, in 
front of the ocular shield; vertical much pointed behind ; scales in 
19 rows on the neck and anterior portion of the body, and 17 round 
the middle, the central row not at all enlarged; caudal disk well 
defined and flattened, but not nearly so much as in 8. ceylanica, some 
of the scales small, with 4 prominent keels, others confluent into 
elongated scales the whole breadth of the disk, and furnished with 
10-17 keels; terminal scale large, slightly bicuspid ; abdominals 
large, 167-169, and bifid ; subcaudals 6 pairs. Colour yellow, much 
blotched with black, each scale being a bright yellow (during life) 
more or less blotched and spotted with black, the two colours nearly 
equal, or the yellow rather predominating ; belly blackish, with very 
irregular transverse bars ot yellow; a yellow line runs along tie 
labials and a short way along the sides of the trunk; tail yellow 
beneath. 12-15 inches long by 13 inch in circumference. 
Hab. Heavy forests on the Sirumullay hills, near Dindigul, at 
4000-5000 feet elevation. 
SILYBURA MACRORHYNCBA, Ni. Sp. 
Rostral exceedingly large, nearly 7 inch in length, very acute, and 
raised in a sharp ridge along its upper surface ; nasals large, very 
