26. PLAsiopaoLis. 301 



anterior, separated from eaoh. other by two scales. Scales in 17 

 rows. Ventrals 206-215; anal divided; suboaudals 68-73. Dull 

 olive-green above and below, with four longitudinal series of small 

 black spots on the back. 



Total length 540 miUim. ; taU 95. 



Southern India. 



a. (S (V. 215; 0. 73). Manantoddy, Wynad. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



(Type.) 

 6. 2 (V. 206; C. 68). Wynad. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



2. Ehabdops bicolor. 



Calamaria bicolor, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Benff. xxiii. 1854, p. 289. 

 Ablabes bicolor, Oiinih. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 226 (1864) ; Anders. An. 



Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 809 (1879). 

 Grotea bicolor, Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 45. 

 PscudocyclopMs bicolor, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 300 (1890). 



Rostral large, more than twice as broad as deep, just visible from 

 above ; nasal divided below the nostril ; internasal single, as long 

 as or a little shorter than the likewise single prsefrontal ; frontal as 

 broad as long, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, two 

 thirds the length of the parietals ; supraocular very small ; loreal 

 as long as deep ; one praeooular ; two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1 ; 

 five upper labials, the upper angle of the third entering the eye, fifth 

 very large ; three lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields, which are not longer than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows. 

 Ventrals 199-213 ; anal divided ; subcaudala 58-77. Blackish 

 brown above, brownish white inferiorly. 



Total length 600 millim. ; tail 130. 



Khasi Hills, Assam, Yunnan. 



a. S (V. 213 ; 0. 77). Khasi Hills. Dr. Griffith. 



b. 5 (V. 199 ; 0. ? ). Khasi Hill^; T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



26. PLAGIOPHOLIS. 



Maxillary short, extending fowards but slightly beyond the 

 palatine, with 16 smaU equal teeth ; mandibular teeth equal. Head 

 small, not distinct from neck ; eye rather small, with round pupil ; 

 no loreal, prseocular in contact with a large semidivided nasal. Body 

 short, cylindrical ; scales smooth, without pits, disposed obliquely, 

 in 15'rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail short ; suboaudals partly entire, 

 partly in two rows. Hypapophyses developed throughout the ver- 

 tebral column. 



Mountains of Burma. 



1. Plagiopholis blakewayi. (PLiiE XIX. fig. 3.) 



Eostral as broad as deep, visible from above ; intemasals much 

 broader than long, a little shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal 



