272 Zoological Society. 



Genus Bungarus, Daudin. 

 BuNGARUS LiviDus. Bung, superne lividus, suhtus alho-flavescens. 



Scuta abdominnlia 221. 



Scuta siibcaudalia 56. 

 Habitat. Asam. 

 Blackish-blue above, yellowish- white beneath. 



Genus Hamadryas*, Cantor. 



Hamadryas ophiophagus. Ham. superne olwaceo-virid'is , striis 

 sagittalibtis nigris ductus, abdomine glauco nigra marmorato. 

 Scuta abdominalia a 215 ad 245. 

 Scuta subcaudalia a IS ad 32. 

 Scutella subcaudalia a 63 ad 7\. 

 Habitat. Bengal. 



Hindustanee name : Sunkr-Choar. 



Olive-green above, with arrow-shaped black stripes; beneath, 

 glaucous marbled with black. 



Genus Naja, Laurenti. 



Naja larvata. Na. supra brunnea, striis subjlavis transversali- 

 bus variegata ; disco annulo albo, larvce hand impari, ornato^ 

 pone quetn (a tribus ad quinque) annuli albi ; — inferioris super - 

 Jiciei pars anterior annulis albis, nigrq-ccerulescentibus alternis 

 circumdata, pars posterior glauco iridescens. 



Habitat. Bombay, Calcutta, Asam. 



Bengalee name : Doollah-Kewtiah Nag. 



Brownish, with numerous faint yellow transverse stripes ; the 

 hood marked with a white ring, not unlike the form of a mask, be- 

 hind which there are from three to five white rings ; — the anterior 

 part of the lower surface with alternate white and bluish- black rings ; 

 the posterior part iridescent-glaucous. 



A young specimen of this serpent lives at present in the Society's 

 Gardens in Regent's Park. The artificial temperature, 62° Fahr., 

 in which it is kept appears to agree very well with the serpent, 

 which in one respect offers a striking difference from the habits of 

 this genus when kept in captivity in India, for the keeper informs 

 me that it feeds occasionally upon living frogs and earth-worms, 

 and that it drinks milk; while those in Dr. Russell's and in my 

 own possession in India, when deprived of liberty invariably refused 

 to take any kind of food. 



Genus Elaps, Schneider. 



Elaps BUNGAROiDEsf. El. supcmc Uvidus, striis sagittalibus alius 

 cinctus ; infra albus alterne lividus. 

 Scuta abdominalia 237 . 

 Scutella subcaudalia 46. 

 Habitat. Chirra Punji. 



Black-blue above, with white arrow-shaped stripes ; beneath, 

 alternately white and black-blue. 



* Vide Proceedings of the Zoological Society, No. Ixvi. p. 73. 

 t From its resemblance to Bungarus roeruleus, Daudin. 



