29. BRACHrOEKHUS. 305 



120-131; anal entire; subr>audals 17-31. Dark brown above, 

 uniform or witb three rather indistinct darker longitudinal lines, 

 and a yellowish collar ; lower surfaces uniform dark brown. 



Total length 230 millim. ; tail 20. 



Travancore and Madura Hills. 



a-c. d(V. 118, 120; C. Travancore. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



25, 28) & ? (V. 129 ; (Types.) 



0. 17). ■'^ ' 



</. $ (V. 181; 0. 17). Travancore. Col. Beddome [0.1. 



e. 6 (V. 129 ; C. 31). Madura Hills, 5000 Col. Beddome [C.]. 



feet. (Type of Xylophis indicus.) 



29. BRACHYORRHUS. 



Brachvorrhos, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 519; Dmn. 8f Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii. 



p. 510 (1854) ; Gunth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 13 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zoul. 



Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 18. 

 Brachyorrhos, part., Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 190 (18.30). 

 Calamaria, part., Schley. Phya. Serp. ii. p. 25 (1837). 

 Calamophis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 135. 

 Mainophis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 1877, p. 36. 

 Atractocephalus, Sauvage, Bii.ll. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 1879, p. 62. 

 Oxyorrhos, Fischer, Verh. nat. T'er. Hamb. (2) iii. 1879, p. 89. 



Maxillary teeth 20 to 22, subequal ; posterior mandibular teeth a 

 little shorter than the anterior. Head not distinct from neck; eye 

 small, with vertically subelliptic pupil ; nostril pierced in a small, 

 single or divided nasal ; a pair of internasals (sometimes united) ; 

 no loreal ; prseooular present or absent. Body cylindrical ; scales 

 smooth, without apical pits, in 17 or 19 rows ; ventrals rounded. 

 Tail short ; subcaudals in two rows. Hypapophyses developed 

 throughout the vertebral column. 



Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. 



1. Brachyorrhus albus. 



Coluber albus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 24, pi. xiv. iig. 2 (1754), and 



8. N. i. p. 378 ( 1766) ; Merrem, Beitr. Gesch. Amph. ii. p. 30, 



pi. vii. (1790) ; Vaud. Rept. vii. p. 49 (1808). 

 brachyurus, Shaw, Zuul. iii. p. 470 (1802) ; Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. 



Vergl. Anat. p. 89 (1820). 

 Brachyorrhos albus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 522 ; Dmn. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 511 



(1854); GilntA. Cat. p. 13 (1858); Jan, Icon. Gen. 13, pi. ii. 



figs. 4 & 5 (1865) ; Peters Sf- Doria, Ann. Mus. Geneva, xiii. 1878, 



p. 385. 



kuhlii, Boie, t. c. p. 540. 



Calamaria brachyorrhos, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 33, pi. i. 



figs. 21-23(1837). 

 Rhabdion gastrotsenia, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxii. 1800, 



p. 42. 

 Calamophis jobiensis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 135. 

 Mainophis robusta, Macleay, P-oc. Limt. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 1877, p. 36. 



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