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Show 800 LIEUT.-COL. R. H. BEDDOME ON [Nov. 5, sulcated, hairy at the sides; cephalothorax broader than long, with a small central projection in front, so that its anterior margin is *--»-'-shaped; a broad gradually formed transverse ridge almost uniting the three oculiferous tubercles ; the central oculiferous tubercle forming a transverse oval, with a central longitudinal depression, its highest point just within the eyes, and the uppermost surface of the eyes themselves flattened (as if filed smooth), the anterior pair of eyes much nearer to each other than the posterior pair ; lateral oculiferous tubercles standing out obliquely from the antero-lateral angles of the cephalothorax, the eyes much smaller than those of the central group ; a long cylindrical process emitted from each side of the cephalothorax at its postero-lateral angles and parallel to the lateral oculiferous tubercles ; two widely separated conical tubercles standing perpendicularly upon the posterior border of the cephalothorax: abdomen irregularly subscutiform, with two terminal tubercles, between which it is sinuated; anterior margin with six conical tubercles, followed by a large unequally bidentate process on each side, these processes being widely divergent and oblique ; a very minute tubercle on a bare spot between them ; second superior abdominal fold with an acute conical tubercle on each side; pectoral shield heptagonal, its margins swollen. Length 16 millims., including cephalothorax, of abdomen alone 12, width at widest part 15 ; length of lateral odontoid processes 6, width from tip to tip of processes 15 ; relative length of legs 1, 2,4, 3. Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. Type in Coll. B. M. Readily distingnished from C. mitra lis by the much more prominent, more unequally bidentate, and far more divergent odontoid processes on the abdomen, the almost entire absence of the large central conical tubercle, the different arrangement of the tubercles on the margins of the abdomen, and the absence of bands on the upper surface of the legs. 4. Description of six new Species of Snakes of the Genus Silybura, Family Uropeltidce, from the Peninsula of India. By Lieut.-Colonel R. H. BEDDOME, C.M.Z.S. [Received August 2, 1878.] SILYBURA. Sect. 1. Scales in nineteen rows. * Caudal disk flat. S I L Y B U R A B R O U G H A M I , n. sp. Scales in 19 rows round middle of bod)*, and neck ; ventrals 224. Rostral large, high and sharp, nearly but not quite separating the nasals. Caudal disk flat, the scales prominently 3-5-keeled; terminal scute slightly bicuspid, the points side by side. Subcaudals 6. Colour brown, with a series of transverse wavy black blotches |