Beddome's Worm Snake

Beddome's worm snake is a harmless blind snake of the family Gerrhopilidae, native to southern India, found in the Western Ghats and in the Kimedy Hills near Visakhapatnam in eastern India. Its preferred habitat is forest at 600–950 m, and it may attain a total length of 14 cm. It is brown above, often with a darker line along the spine, paler brown below, with a whitish rounded snout and vent region (Wikipedia, general species account).

It lays eggs. The type locality is given as the hills of the Indian peninsula, including the Anaimalai and Travancore hills between 2,000 and 5,000 feet.