NAIA. 



391 



B. A pair of large shields behind parietals ; 19- 

 21 scales across neck, 15 across middle of 

 body; subcaudals 80-107, anterior usually 

 single N. bungarus, p. 392. 



485. Naia tripudians. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. i, pis. v vi, and ii, pi. i. 



Coluber naia, Linn. St/st. Nat. i. p. 382. 



Naia lutescens, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 91 ; Cantor, J. A. S. B. xvi, 



1847, p. 1038. 

 Naia tripudiaus, Merr. Tent. p. 147 ; Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii, pis. 



Ixxvii-lxxix ; Dum. 8f Bib)'. Erp. Gen. vii, p. 1293; Gilnth. Rept. 



B. I. p. 338; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, p. 211 ; 



Fayrer, Thanatoph. pis. i-vi ; Jan, Icon. Ophid. 45, pi. i, fig. 3; 



Theob. Cat. p. 208 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, p. 241 ; Murray, 



Zool. Sind, p. 387 ; Boetlg. Zool. Jahrb. iii, 1888, p. 943. 

 Tomyris oxiana, Eichw. Zool. Spec, iii, p. 171, and Faun. Casp.-Cauc. 



p. 130, pi. xx. 



Naia larvata, Cantor, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 32. 

 Naia atra, Cantor, A. M. N. H. ix, 1842, p. 482. 

 Naia oxiana, Strauch, Bull. St. Petersb. xiii, 1868, p. 87 ; Bouleng. 



Tr. Linn. Soc. (2) v, 1889, p. 103, pi. xi, fig. 2. 



Fig. 115. Naia tripudians. 

 Kostral a little broader than deep, visible from above ; inter- 



