( 135 ) 



Scales in the middle of the body in 17 rows. Ventrals 122. 

 Sub-caudals, 9 pairs. Colour above brown, below yellowish, 

 densely marbled with brown. Sides of the throat yellowish, 

 immaculate. The lower part of the tail black, with a broad 

 ■white band on each side. 



Inhabits the Anamallay and Nilghiri hills. 



S. rubro-maculata. Bed. Mad. M. J. M. S., 1867, p. 15, PI. II, f.3. 



" Caudal disk well defined as if cut off with a knife. Scales of 

 the disk very prominently 2 keeled, terminal scale large, square 

 at the end or very inconspicuously bicuspid. Abdominals 127, 

 some of the last nearest the tail double; sub-caudals 8 pairs. Scales 

 in 17 rows. Colour brownish, a portion of each scale dull yellow, 

 the yellow colour predominating on the belly and sides. Five red 

 blotches along the sides on the anterior portion of the trunk, 

 and one on each side of the tail, near the vent. 



Anamallay forests 4,000 feet elevation. 



" Nearly allied to 8. Elliotti, but with quite a different colour- 

 ation." 



S. Wood-Masoni, Theob. 



Scales in 19 rows on the middle of the body. Head distorted. 

 Disk ill-defined, scales with 2, 3, or 4 keels. Six pair of caudal 

 shields. Mental very small, two lower labial shields, the poste- 

 rior ones the same as the scales. 



Colour black, brownish anteriorly. A yellow band from the 

 gape, involving half of the fourth upper labial, continued down 

 the neck and then broken up into yellow spots along the abdomen. 

 Tail margined below with yellow, which unites across the vent. 



Length 8-50 inches (taU 0-50). 



Inhabits the Palney hills. 



Plecteurus, Dvjrmril et Bibron. 



Posterior part of the tail compressed, covered with obtusely 

 keeled scales and terminating in a vertical bicuspid scale. Head 

 conical. Nasals form a suture together behind the rostral. Eye 

 between four shields. 



