166 TJEOPELIID^. 



hr-i. Yg. (V. 164, 163 ; Madras HiUa. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



0. 14, 13). (Types of P. bilineatus.) 



h-l. Yg. (V. 162, 168 ; Devacolum, Travancore Col. Beddome [C.]. 



C. 11,10). Hills. 



2. Platyplectrurus madurensis. (Plate XI. fig. 2.) 



Platyplectrurus madurensis, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 167, 

 and Ann. 8; Mag. N. H. (5) xvii. 1886, p. 33 ; Bouleng. Fawn. Ind., 

 Rept. p. 274 (1890). 



Very closely allied to the preceding, but head-shields rather shorter 

 and supraoculars not longer than the praefrontals. Diameter of 

 body 38 to 42 times in the total length. Yentrals 158-175 ; sub- 

 caudals 10-15. In one of the specimens the temporal is anoma- 

 lously fused with the fourth labial. Above a nacreous purplish 

 brown ; ventrals and the two adjoining series of scales on each side 

 ■white in the centre, purplish brown on the borders. 



Total length 350 millim. 



Pulney and Travancore Hills (4000-6000 feet). 



a, l~d. S (V. 158 ; 0. 16) & Pulney Hills, 6000 ft. Col. Beddome [C.l. 

 2 (V. 170, 175, 165 ; C. 11, (Types.) 



10, 10). 



3. Platyplectrurus sanguineus. 



Plectrurus sanguineus, Beddome, Madras Quart. Journ. Med. 8c. 



1867, p. 14, fig. ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 136 (1876). 

 Platyplectrurus hewstoni, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 701. 

 Plectrurus scabricauda, Theob. I. v. 

 Teretrurus sanguineus, Beddome, Ann. Sr Mag. iV. S. (5) xvii. 1886, 



p. 28. 



travancoricus, Beddome, I. c. p. 29. 



Platyplectrurus sanguineus, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 274 (1890). 



Snout obtuse ; rostral small, visible from above ; frontal longer 

 than broad ; supraocular not or scarcely larger than the eye, 

 as long as or shorter than the praefrontals ; temporal about half 

 the length of the parietals. Diameter of the body 22 to 28 times 

 in the total length. 15 scales round the middle of the body, 17 

 behind the head. Yentrals nearly twice as broad as the contiguous 

 scales, 120-150. Subcaudals 5-10. Caudal scales, smooth or 

 faintly keeled' in the females ; all the caudals and the last ventrals 

 inore or less distinctly pluricarinate in the males ; tail ending in a 

 simple compressed point. Brown or purplish red above ; belly red, 

 uniform or more or less blotched with black. 



Total length 220 millim. 



Anamallays, Wynad, and Travancore Hills (3000-4700 feet). 



»-/. S (V.128; C. 9), $ Anamallays, 4000 ft. Col. Beddome [0.1 

 (V. 1S6, 147,131; C. 6, ' (Types.) 



8, 6), & yg. (V. 135, 

 150; C. 9,8), 



