310 COLTJBEID^. 



Aspidura carinata, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 30, and 



Icon. 06n. 13, pi i. iig. 5 (1865). 

 ceylonensis, Theoh. Cat. p. 143 (1876). 



Eostral a little deeper than broad, not visible from above ; 

 frontal as long as its distance from the end of the snout, three 

 fifths the length of the parietals ; praefrontals in contact with the 

 second and third upper labials ; one pree- and two postooulars ; 

 temporals 1 + 2; seven upper labials, fourth, or third and fourth, 

 entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields ; posterior chin-shields small, scale-like. Scales elongate, 

 smooth on the nape, moderately keeled on the anterior half of the 

 back, sharply keeled on the posterior half and on the tail. Yentrals 

 177-207; anal single; subcaudals 37-56. Brown above, with a 

 black vertebral line, and, on each side, a series of small black spots ; 

 an oblique yellowish, black-edged baud on each side of the nape, 

 which may disappear in the adult ; lower surface uniform yellowish. 



Total length 430 miUim. ; tail 60. 



Ceylon. 



a. d (V. 180; C. 56). Ceylon. R. Templeton, ) 



Esq. f P.}. } (Types.) 



b. $ (V. 207 ; C. 50). Ceylon. j 



c. d (V. 177 ; C. 42). Ceylon. 



d-f. 2 (V. 192,188; Punduloya, 4000 ft. E. E. Green, Esq. [P.]. 

 0. 37, 40) & yg. (V. 

 196 ; 0. 39). 



33. ASPIDURA. 



Aspidura, Waffl. Syst. Amph. p. 19] (1830) ; Vam. 8,- Bihr. Erp. Gen. 



vii. p. 127 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. Col. 8n. p. 14 (1858), and JRept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 202 (1864) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 288 (1890). 

 Calamaria, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 25 (1837). 

 Aspidura, part., Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 29. 



Maxillary teeth about 20, small, equal; posterior mandibular 

 teeth a little shorter than the anterior. Head not distinct from 

 neck ; eye small, with round pupil ; nostril < between two small 

 nasals and the first labial ; no loreal ; a single internasal ; prse- 

 ocuiar present or absent. Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, without 

 apical pits, in 15 or 17 rows ; ventrals rounded ; tail short ; sub- 

 caudals single. Hypapophyses developed throughout the vertebral 

 column. 



Ceylon. 



Synopsis of the Species. 

 A. Scales in 17 rows. 



a. Both postoculars in contact with the parretal ; ventrals 1 25- 

 150. 



A prseocular : supraocular more than half 



length of frontal 1. hrachyorrlms, p. 31 1. 



