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Lividus (Cantor). — This is peculiar in having the vertebrate but 

 slightly enlarged. They are narrower than the last costal row, and 

 longer than broad in the middle of the body. This peculiarity it 

 shares with sindanus alone, but differs from that species in the 

 scale rows being 15. It is quite black dorsally, not banded ventrally, 

 and in these particulars like niger differing in the narrow vertebrals 

 and in having fewer ventrals and subcaudals. There are four 

 specimens in the British Museum which I have examined. Three 

 are from Assam and one from India, precise locality not on record. 

 I have lately received one from the Jalpaiguri District, two from 

 Tindharia and one from near Tezpur, Assam, and examined another in 

 the Museum of St. Joseph's College, Darjeeling, precise locality not 

 known. The specimen from Saidpur recorded by Sclater* is probably 

 of this species. All the localities from which it has been recorded are 

 within the Basin of the Brahmaputra Eiver. 



Cceruleus (Schneider). — This is dealt with in the paper which follows, 

 Ceylonkus (Gnnther). — This snake has alternate black and white 

 bands which encircle the body and is peculiar to Ceylon. 



Fasciatus (Schneider). — A very well marked form with black and 

 yellow bands which completely encircle the body. The tail is 

 peculiar in being blunt and fingerlike, and the back is ridged in a 

 manner not seen in any other krait. It extends from South China and 

 the Malay Sub-region through Tenasserim, to the Irrawaddy-Salween 

 Basins, thence to the Brahmaputra Basin and the Eastern part of the 

 Ganges Basin. (I have lately seen a skin from Bettiah, N.-W. Behar.) 

 It is also common in a restricted area of the north-eastern part of 

 Peninsula India, corresponding roughly to the Mahanadi Basin.f 



* J. A. S., Bengal, LX., p. 246. 



t A single specimen iu the British Museum labelled Anamallays and presented by Colonel 

 Beddome is the solitary record of this snake from Peninsula India outside the area above 

 specified. This record I discredit for the following reasons. A study of Boulenger's 

 Catalogue and Sclater's list of snakes in the Indian Museum (Journal Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, Vol. LX) reveal the fact that no less than seven other species are recorded by Colonel 

 Beddome alone from various parts of Southern India, all well-known inhabitants of other 

 parts. These are Tropidonotus himalayanus, T. subminiatus, T. jxtrallelus, Lycodonja.ru, 

 Simotes splendidus, S. octolineatus, and Dendrelaphis candvlineatus. That Colonel Beddome 

 received snakes from the Himalayas, Burma and Tenasserim, the localities from which 

 these species are otherwise known, is certain, for there are specimens in the British Mu- 

 seum presented in his name from these areas, viz., Simotes albocinctm^ S. violaceus, S. 

 cyciurus, S.crufntatus,and JJipsadomorphus hexagonotus. It seems certain that all of the 

 species above alluded to including a B. fasciatus were received from the localities just 

 enumerated, and by an oversight mixed up with Colonel Beddome's S. Indian collections. 



