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of tlie colour of the back, the dark colouring sometimes joining 

 these of the other side particularly in the anterior portion of the 

 belly. Length up to 2 feet with a circumference of a man's 

 thumb. 

 Anamallay forests, in moist woods, at 4,000 feet elevation. 



TJeopeltis, Cuvier. (in part). 



Tail cylindrical obliquely truncated, as if severed by a knife ; 

 the end flat, rough, scaleless. Head conical, nasals forming a 

 suture behind the rostral. Superciliary and postocular united. 

 Scales anteriorly in 23 rows. 



IT. grandis, Cuv. 

 U. Philippimos, Cuv. " 



U. Suffragamus, grandis et pardalis. Kel. Part II, p. 15, 16. 

 Snout pointed. Scales on the neck in 23 rows. Ventrals 

 138 — 148. Sub-caudals 7 or 8 bifid. Colour uniform brown 

 above. Ventrals and scales of sides brown, with a broad yellow- 

 ish, margin. Young sometimes irregularly white spotted. 

 Grows to 20 inches. 

 Inhabits Ceylon. (Adams Peak and Matura.) 



SiLTBUKA, Peters. 

 Tail sub-cylindrical, scales of the caudal disk provided with 

 one or more keels ; terminal scale horny, bispinous, horizontal. 

 Head conical. Nasals forming a suture behind the rostral. Eye 

 in a single plate. 



S. macrolepis, Peters. Monats, Berl. Acad., 1861, p. 904. 



Snout obtuse. Eostral without keel above, shorter than the 

 vertical. Caudal disk flat, twice as long as broad, each scale 

 with one or two keels. Scales in the middle of the body in 15 

 rows. Ventrals 137. Sub-caudals 9 pairs. Colour black. A 

 broad irregular ^yellow band along each side in front, narrowing 

 and disappearing behind. A yellow band along each side of the 

 tail below. 



Grows to 10'5 inches. 



Inhabits Southern India, probably. 



