34. BLYIHIA. 313 



4. Aspidura trachjrprocta. 



Aspidurabrachyorrhos, part., Qilnth. Cat. p. 14 (1858). 



trachyprocta, Cope, Froc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 76 ; Giinth. 



Mept. Brit. Ind. p. iiOS, pi. xviii. fig. F (1864) ; Theoh. Cat. Rept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 143 (1876); Boulmg. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 290 



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



Icon. Qen. 13, pi. ii. figs. 1-3 (1865). 



Eostral small, deeper than broad, not visible from above ; frontal 

 longer than its distance from the end of the snout, about two thirds 

 the length of the parietals ; supraoculars more than half the length 

 of the frontal ; prsefrontals in contact with the eye and with the 

 second and third upper labials, separated from the fourth by a small 

 prseooular ; two postoculars, lower largest, both in contact with the 

 parietal; temporals 1 + 2; six upper labials, first and second very 

 small, sixth largest, fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields small 

 and scale-like. Scales in 16 rows, tubercularly keeled on the anal 

 and caudal regions. Ventrals 120-147 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 

 13-25. Erown or blackish above, with longitudinal series of small 

 darker spots and a dark lateral streak, which are more distinct in 

 the young ; lower surface blackish, or yellowish spotted with black. 



Total length 4uO millim. ; tail 30. 



Ceylon. 



a, h. S (V. 139 ; C. 24) & § Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. 



(V. 140 ; 0. 16). 

 e, d. Many specs, : c? (V. 137, Ceylon. 



138, 136, 125 ; C. 23, 25, 21, 



23), 2 (V. 128, 127, 125; C. 



18,15,17),&yg. (V.144,139, 



141, 135, 120 ; C. 15, 14, 22, 



23, 24). 

 e,f. 9 (V. 139, 142; C. 13, 11). Ceylon. 



f^, ^ (V. 144, 139 ; C. 24, 24). Ceylon. B. H. Barnes, Esq. [P.]. 

 'h. Yg. (V. 147 ; C. 23). Ceylon. G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. 



34. BLYTHIA. 



Blythia, Theobald, Cat. Bcpt. As. Soc. Mus. p. 44 (1868) ; Bmdeng. 

 Faun. Ind., Mept. p. 287 (1890). 



Maxillary teeth about 20, subequal ; posterior mandibular teeth 

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

 small, with vertically subelliptie pupil ; nostril between two small 

 nasals and the first 'labial ; no loreal or prseooular. Body cylin- 

 drical ■ scales smooth, in 13 rows, without apical pits ; ventrals 

 rounded. Tail short, subcaudals in two rows. Hypapophyses 

 developed throughout the vertebral column. 



Khasi Hills, N. India. 



