112 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XV III. 



Date. 





1905. 

 20fch July 



1906. 

 23rd March 



8th July... 



3rd August 

 3rd August 



6th August 

 14th August 



28th August 

 29th August 



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Killed in the 85th K. S. L. I. 

 Mess in the evening. 



Labials seven, with the 3rd and 

 4th touching the eye. 



Killed in Cantonment Hospital 

 Ward. 



Contained a skink (Mabuia Sp.). 



Dislodged from heap of kunkur. 

 7 upper labials on the right 

 side ; the 3rd, 4th and 5th 

 touching the eye. Gravid. 

 2 eggs one inch long. 



Escaped from captivity. 



Unearthed with eggs while 

 digging. 



Dislodged whilst digging. 



Lycodon aulicus. 



I obtained 35 specimens. Of the 32 sexed, 16 were males and 16 

 females. They were as numerous during the hot months as in the 

 rains, and though scarcer they were not quite absent in the cold 

 weather. 



A large number were as usual caught in habitations. 



Two cases of snakebite were traceable to this plucky and vivacious 

 little snake. 



It is worthy of remark that all but two of these specimens were 

 adults, and in this respect it differed from most of the other species, 

 and especially TrOpidonotus piscator. (In the latter case large adults 

 were in a very small minority.) Of 8 specimens that exceeded two feet 

 in length only on© was a male. 



Food. — A mouse was taken on two occasions, and geckoes of the 

 genus Hemidadylus furnished the meal in four other instances. The 



