Rhinophis sanguineus

The salty earth snake is a snake of the family Uropeltidae found in the Western Ghats of southern India, at Koppa and Kalsa in Mysore, Wynaad, the Nilgiris, Travancore and Tinnevelly. The body is bluish black and the belly bright red with blackish mottling. The vent scale is divided, and males have 9 or 10 pairs of under-tail scales, each with 4 to 6 keels, while females have 6 or 7 (Wikipedia, general species account).

A large male measured about 13 inches (33 cm) and a female about 10 inches (25.5 cm). The account used here gives no information on habitat or diet.