Geographic range
It is found in southern India ( Travancore, Trivandrum,Description
Dark purplish brown, scales on the sides and on the ventrum edged with whitish. Anal region black. Ventral surface of tail yellow. The total length of the type specimen is . Dorsal scales in 17 rows at midbody (in 19 rows behind the head). Ventrals 146; subcaudals 6. Snout acutely pointed. Rostral slightly laterally compressed, not keeled, about ⅓ the length of the shielded part of the head. Nasals separated by the rostral. Eye in the ocular shield. No supraoculars. Frontal longer than broad. No temporals. No mental groove. Diameter of body 34 times in the total length. Ventrals about 1½ times the size of the contiguous scales. Tail ending in a large convex rugose shield, which is neither truncated nor spinose at the end. Caudal disc slightly shorter than the shielded part of the head. Boulenger, G.A. 1893. ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families...Uropeltidæ...'' Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). London. pp. 140, 143; Plate IX., figures 3., 3a., 3b.Footnotes
Further reading
* Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Description of a new Earth-Snake from Travancore. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7 (3): 318, 1 PlateExternal links
* travancoricus Reptiles of India Reptiles described in 1892 {{Alethinophidia-stub