XENOPELIIDiE. t 167 



g-h. Yg. (V. 142, 120; C. Anamallays. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



8 8^ 



ir-Tzl $ (V. 147, 149 ; 0. Anamallays, 4700 ft. W. Davison, Esq. 



7, 8). [P.]. 



/. ? (V.123; C.5). Wynad,SOOOft. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



(Type of P. hewitoni.') 



OT. ? (V. 127 ; 0. 7). Wynad. Col. Beddome [0.1. 



■^■-q- <S (V. 132 ; C. 8) & Travancore hills, Col. Beddome [O.J. 



$ (V. 135, 135, 130; C. 3000-4000 ft. (Types of T. tramncoricus.) 



6, 7, 7). 



r-t. Hgr. (V. 139, 147 ; C. High range of Tra- H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 



10, 10) & yg. (V. 150 ; C. vancore Hills, [P.]. 



'^Ss.m. 6. XENOPELTID.ffi. 



Imbricatse, part., Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 510. 



Aglyphodontes Holodontiens, part., Dum^-il, Mim. Ac. 8c. xxiii. 



p. 424, 1853. 

 Tortricidae, part., Jan, Elenco sist. Ofld. p. 18, 1863. 

 Xenopeltidse, Cope, Froc. Ac. PMlad. 1864, p. 230. 

 Xenopeltidfe, Gunther, Mept. Brit. Ind. p. 180, 1864. 

 Xenopeltidse, Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii. p. 482, 1886. 

 Xenopeltidse, Boulenger, Faun. Ind., JRept. p. 275, 1890. 



Cranial bones more or less solidly united ; transpalatine present ; 

 pterygoid extending to quadrate ; supratemporal present, suspending 

 quadrate ; praefrontal in contact ■with nasal. Mandible without 

 coronoid bone. Teeth in jaws, palate, and praemaxillary. 



A single genus, inhabiting South-eastern Asia. 



\l. XENOPELTIS. 



Xenopeltis, Jteinw. in Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 564 ; Dum. Sf Bdyr. JErp. 



Gin. vii. p. 28 (1854) ; GiJmth. Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 180 (1864) ; 



Jan, Icon. Gin. p. 57 (1866) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Mept. p. 276 



(1890). 

 Tortrix, part., Schleg. Phys. Se.rp. ii. p. 1 (1837). 



Teeth small, equal, closely set, and very numerous (4 on each 

 side of the prsemaxiUary, 33-38 in each maxillary, 35 or 36 in 

 each ramus of the mandible). Dentary bone attached loosely 

 to the apex of the articular and movable on it. Head not 

 distinct . from neck; eye small, with vertically elliptic pupil. 

 Nostril between two small nasals ; frontal in contact with a 

 large agygous interparietal shield, which is in the middle between 

 four parietals. A mental groove. Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, 

 in 15 rows ; ventrals large ; t?,il short, subcaudals in two rows. 



South-eastern Asia. 



