This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...adjoining scales. Sub-caudals 5-6. Colour brown above, white below reticulated with black lines and bands, a black vertebral line and an irregular lateral one. Transverse bands on the back, narrow, on the belly broad. Head and neck black, followed by a red (?) collar, an oblique white (red?) band ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...adjoining scales. Sub-caudals 5-6. Colour brown above, white below reticulated with black lines and bands, a black vertebral line and an irregular lateral one. Transverse bands on the back, narrow, on the belly broad. Head and neck black, followed by a red (?) collar, an oblique white (red?) band descends from the occipitals to the throat. Grows to 24 inches. Inhabits Ceylon. It is probable that during life, at all events seasonally, the 'white' as described in this snake, is a bright red. Family Uropeltida Head not distinct from, but smaller than the neck. Tail short, truncated. Eyes small. Scales polished imbricate, the ventral series somewhat enlarged. One pair only of frontals, upper labials four. Cleft of the mouth moderate. Teeth in both jaws, but none on the palate. No rudimentary pelvic limbs. Habits subterraneous. Confined to Ceylon and Southern India. Khinophis, Hemprich. Tail cylindrical, covered with smooth scales, and terminating in a convex scabrous shield. Head conical, nasals separated by the rostral which extends backwards. Eye in a single plate. Body thickest anteriorly and with scale in 19 rows in the middle. Head often displaced from its direct axis, as though " it had been dislocated during some effort of the snake to penetrate the soil." Giinther. Viviparous. R. oxyrhynchus Schn. Peters Uropelt, p. 9, tab. 2, f. 1. Daypatimya Lankadivana, Kel. Prod. II, p. 16. Mytilia unimaculata, Gray. P. Z. S., 1858, p. 264. Snout acutely pointed. Rostral nearly half as long as the head. Keeled above. Caudal large, convex, extending to the lower surface of the tail, as large as the heal. Ventrals 214-233, not much larger than the adjoining scales. Males with 7 or 8, females with 6 subcaudals, some simple, some bifid....
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