NOTES ON SNAKES COLLECTED IN FYZABAD. 



119 



The physiognomy of the snake is unpleasant from the underhung 

 condition of the lower jaw. Though the majority were caught in or 

 beside the water, two at least were reported to have come into habita- 

 tions. Many habitations though some distance from the river are 

 connected by deep drains which in flood time would serve as conduits 

 inland, and which after a subsidence would be cut off from the river, 

 and might lead to overland excursions in the endeavour to regain their 

 1 1 roper haunts. 



Food. — One had swallowed a fish, and another a frog. 



Breeding. — The season was evidently over, and the young by 

 August already launched abroad. 



Colour. — It is curious that in this snake the bars, which of course 

 are developed independently on each side, nearly always fail to meet 

 their corresponding fellows on the middle of the back ; and in this 

 respect it differs from other barred or banded snakes like the Bunga- 

 rums and Lycodons where the failure to meet is quite unusual. 



I append a table of the specimens. 



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Scales. 



0; ^3 





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to . 



Xi ~ 



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 t.n a> 

 a > 



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Eemabks. 



1906. 



5th August 



6th August 



Do. 



7th August 

 8th August 



10th August 

 11th August 



17th August 

 18th August 



24th August 

 25th August 

 27th Auo-ust 



$ 



9 

 $ 



9 

 8 



9 

 $ 



S 

 $ 



8 

 $ 



8f 



9" 

 8|" 



1' 6; 



1 all 



l 8 



11/. 



3" 



Killed in a house. 

 A frog swallowed. 



23 ventrals between navel 

 and anal. 



30 ventrals between navel 

 and anal. 



A fish swallowed. 



Killod in a house. 



Labials 9 on the right side, 

 the 4th touching the 

 eye, 7 on left side, the 

 3rd touching the eye. 



