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Catalogue 



4. 



T. ? 





a. very slender specimen 





Body, 13.00 





Tail, 0.50 



No record. 



13.50 Circumference, 0.60. 



Body uniform throughout, leaden grey, rather paler beneath, under 

 tail yellowish. 



T. mirus, Jan. Ceylon. 



Like T. Braminus. with yellow snout. 

 ONYCHOCEPHALUS, Dumeril et Bibron. 

 O. acutus, Duni. et Bib. 



a. five specimens. Chaibassa. Major Haughton. 



FAMILY UHOPELTHm 



BHINOPHIS, Hemprich. 

 B. oxyrhynchus, Schneid. Ceylon, (Kandy.) 



B. punctatus, Muller. Ceylon. 



B. planiceps, Pet (Philippinus.) Ceylon. 

 B. trevelyanus, Kelaart. Ceylon, (Kandy.) 



B. sanguineus, Beddome. Cherambady in the Wynaud. 

 B. blythii, Kelaart. 



a. nearly full grown. Kandy. Dr. Kelaart. 



B. pulneyensis, Beddome. 



a. Three specimens 



(one injured). Kandy. Dr. Kelaart. 



I have little doubt of the identification or locality; so these specimens 

 prove the occurrence of a Ceylonese species on the mainland, as might 

 have been predicated. 



UBOPELTIS, Cuvier. 



U. granuis, Kelaart. Ceylon, Adam's Peak, Matura. 



SILYBUBA, Peters. 



S. MACROLEPIS, Pet. 



S. beddomii, Giinth. Anamullay hills. 



S. ocellata, Beddome, Walaghat, Nilghiris. 

 S. elliotti, Gray. Madras. 



