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Show 1877.J LIEUT.-COL. BEDDOME ON NEW UROPELTID2E. 167 2. Descriptions of three new Snakes of the Family Uropeltidse from Southern India. By Lieut.-Col. R. H. BEDDOME, F.Z.S. [Received February 12, 1877.] PLATYPLECTRURUS MADURENSIS, n. sp. Snout much rounded and very obtuse; rostral very small, scarcely reaching the surface of the head ; nasals very large, vertical, six-sided, not much produced behind; 3rd labial large, but 4th much larger; eye pretty large, surrounded by the 3rd labial, postfrontal, superorbital, and postocular (the latter shield sometimes confluent with the supraorbital); occipitals elongate ; mental very small ; the 1st pair of chin-shields meet behind it and have a 2nd pair between them and the 1st ventral; an elongated temporal shield is sometimes present between the 4 th labial and the occipital; abdominals 149- 170 ; anal bifid ; subcaudals 10-15 ; tail scarcely compressed, scales quite smooth ; terminal scale sharp-pointed, and with a sharp ridge on each side ; colour above a nacreous purplish-brown ; each of the abdominal scutes and the two lower rows of scales on each side, white in the centre, but with a complete ring round the outer margins of the same colour as the back, giving the whole belly a very uniform coloration. 11-14 inches long. Hab. About Kodiukarnal on the Pulney Mountains (Madura district), 600 feet elevation ; very rare. SILYBURA DINDIGALENSIS, n, sp. Rostral large, as long as the vertical, acute and with a high ridge, not separating the nasals, which are very large; eye very small, iii front of the ocular shield; vertical much pointed behind ; scales in J 9 rows on the neck and anterior portion of the body, and 17 round the middle, the central row not, at all enlarged; caudal disk well defined and flattened, but not nearly so much as in S. ceylanica, some of the scales small, with 4 prominent keels, others confluent into elongated scales the whole breadth of the disk, and furnished with 10-17 keels; terminal scale large, slightly bicuspid; abdominals large, 167-169, and bifid ; subcaudals 6 pairs. Colour yellow, much blotched with black, each scale being a bright yellow (during life) more or less blotched and spotted with black, the two colours nearly equal, or the yellow rather predominating; belly blackish, with very irregular transverse bars of yellow ; a yellow line runs along the labials and a short way along the sides of the trunk; tail yellow beneath. 12-15 inches long by If inch in circumference. Hab. Heavy forests on the Sirumullay hills, near Dindigul, at 4000-5000 feet elevation. SILYBURA MACRORHYNCHA, n. sp. Rostral exceedingly large, nearly | inch in length, very acute, and raised in a sharp ridge along its upper surface ; nasals large, very |