148 



a. ? (V. 178; 0.6). 



UBOPELTID.S;. 



Pulney Hills. 



b-d,e,f. d (V. 180,172, Pulney Hills. 



175; 0.9,8,12)& $ 



(V. 172, 174 ; 0. 8, 8). 

 g. )s (V. 170; 0. 13). Cumbum Hills, 5000 ft, 



3. Silybnra grandis. 



Ool. Beddome [0.]. 

 (One of the types.) 

 Col. Beddome [0.]. 



Ool. Beddome [0.]. 

 (Type of S. guentheri.) 



Rhinophis grandis, Beddmne, Madras Quart. Journ. Med. So. 1867, 

 fig. ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 131 (1876). 



Silybura grandis, Qunth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (4) i. 1868, p. 414 ; 

 Beddome, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 11 ; Bouleng. Faun. 

 Ind., Rept. p. 261 (1890). 



Snout pointed ; rostral one third or one fourth the length of the 

 shielded part of the head, longer than its distance from the frontal, 

 sometimes separating the nasals ; frontal longer than broad. Eye 

 very small, not half the length of the ocular. Diameter of body 

 30 to 40 times in the total length. Scales in 19 rows round the 

 middle of the body, 21 behind the head. Ventrals about twice as 

 large as the contiguous scales, 198-218 ; posterior ventrals pluri- 

 carinate in the male. Subcaudals 6-12. Tail round or slightly 

 compressed, the terminal scute with two small spines ; caudal scales 

 more or less strongly pluricarinate. Dark violet ; belly with alter- 

 nating large yellow spots or cross bands. 



Total length 480 miUim. 



Anamallay Mountains, S. India. 



a. (J (V. 206; 0.10). 



b, c-d. S (V. 208 ; 

 0. 10) & $ (V. 214, 

 213 ; 0. 8, 7). 



e-TO. d (V. 198, 200 ; 

 0.10,12), $(V. 214, 

 206, 210, 213; 0.7, 7, 

 8,6),&yg.(V.205, 

 218; 0.11,7). 



n. Skeleton. 



Anamallay Forests, 4000 Col. Beddome [C.]. 



feet. (Type.) 



Anamallay Forests, 4000 Col. Beddome [0.]. 



feet. 



Anamallays, 4700 feet. 



Anamallays, 4700 feet. 



W. Davison, Esq. 



[P.]. 



W. Davison, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



4. Silybura petersii. (Piate VI. fig. 1.) 



Silybura petersi, Beddome, Proo. Zool. iSoc. 1878, p. 154, and Ann. Sf 

 Mag. N. if. (5) xvii. 1886. p. 22 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. 

 p. 261 (1890). 



Snout obtusely pointed ; rostral hardly one fourth the length of 

 the shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above shorter 

 than its distance from the frontal ; nasals in contact; frontal longer 

 than broad. Eye small, not half the length of the ocular. Dia- 

 meter of body 25 to 33 times in the total length. 17 scales round 

 the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Ventrals about twice 



