TmOPELTIDiE. 137 



snout ; frontal usually a little smaller than the supraocular or the 

 parietal ; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye. 

 Scales in 19 or 21 rows. Ventrals not twice as large as the con- 

 tiguous scales, 189-212; anal divided; subcaudals 4-6. AboTe, 

 with black network enclosing two series of large reddish-brown spots 

 along the back ; lower parts white, variegated with black. 



Total length 350 millim. 



Ceylon. 



«. 2 (V. 212; 0. 5). Trincomalee. Col. Yerbury [P.]. 



b. 2 (V. 201 ; C. 5). Ceylon. Sir J. Banks [P.]. 



c. Hgr. (V. 189 ; C. 6). Ceylon. R. Templeton, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Hgr. (Y. 192 ; C. 5). Ceylon. 



e-f. 5 (V. 198, 196 ; ? Dr. P. Kussell [P.]. 



C. 6, 6). 

 g. 2 (V- 198; C. 4). ? Zoological Society. 



3. CylindropMs lineatus. 



CyUndrophis lineatus, Blanf. JProo. Zool. Sob. 1881, p. 217, pi. xx. 



Diameter of the eye about one fourth its distance from the 

 nostril ; the distance between the eyes equals the length of the 

 snout ; frontal about as large as the suprocular and a little larger 

 than the parietals ; six upper labials, third and fourth entering the 

 eye. Scales in 21 rows. Ventrals nearly twice as large as the 

 contiguous scales, 215 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 9. Blackish 

 brown above, with two white stripes ; belly white, with alter- 

 nating black cross bands ; head and tail yellowish. 



Total length 780 millim. 



Singapore. 



Fam. 5. UROPELTID^ *. 



Typhlopoidea, part., Fitzinger, Neiw Class. Rept. p. 25, 1826. 

 TJropeltacea, J. Muller, Zeitschr. f. Physiol, iv. p. 270, 1832. 

 Uropeltidee, Orai/, Cat. Liz. p. 140, 1845. 

 Up6rolissiena, Dumeril, Mem. Ac. Sc, xxiii. p. 443, 1853 ; Dumeril 



Sf Bibron, Erp. Gin. vii. p. 144, 1854. 

 Uropeltidee, Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 16, 1863. 

 Uropeltidas, Giintlter, Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 182, 1864. 

 Uropeltidae, Cope, Proc. A.c. Philad. 1864, p. 230. 

 Rhinophidse, Cope, Proc, Amer. Philos. Soc. xxiii. p. 482, 1886. 

 Uropeltidee, Boulenger, Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 251, 1890. 



Cranial bones solidly united ; transpalatine present ; pterygoid 

 not extending to quadrate or mandible ; no supratemporal ; quadrate 



* The foUowiiig names in Jerdou's Catalogue of Indian Reptiles (Journ. 

 As. Soo. Beng. xxii. 1854, p. 527) refer, iu all probability, to Snakes of this 

 family : — 



CyUndrophis curticeps, CyUndrophis macroscelis, Filidion ? montanmn, TJro- 

 peltis affinis, Xenopeltis ? trimrgatus... All from the Nilgherriea. 



