Platyceps plinii

The banded racer, or Merrem's racer, is a colubrid snake found in Asia. The body is reddish to greyish brown with the lower sides of the scales dark. Adults are a single colour, while juveniles have indistinct light greyish crossbars on the front of the body, and the belly is cream (Wikipedia, general species account).

The Reptile Database lists Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The account used here gives no information on size, habitat, diet or breeding.