272 Zoological Society. 



Genus Bungarus, Daudin. 

 BUNGABUS LIVIDU8. Bung, superne licidus, subtus albo-Jlaccucus. 

 Scuta abdotninalta 221. 



Sen tn subcaudalia ">6\ 

 Habitat. Asam. 

 Blackish-blue above, yellowish-white beneath. 



Genus II vmadryas*, Cantor. 



Hamadryas OPHIOPHAGUS. Ham* superne olivaceo-t traits, striis 

 sagittalibus nigr'is cinctus, abdomine glauco nigro marmorato. 

 Scuta abdominalia a 215 ad 245. 

 Scuta subcaudalia a 13 ad 32. 

 Scutella subcaudalia a 63 ad 71. 

 Habitat. Bengal. 



Hindustanee name : Sunkr-Choar. 



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

 glaucous marbled with black. 



Genus Naja, Laurenti. 



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

 bus variegata ; disco annulo albo, larvce haud impart, ornato, 

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

 jiciei pars anterior annulis albis, nigro-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 Ptegent's Park. The artificial temperature, 62° Fahr., 

 in which it is kept appears to agree very well w r ith 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. 



ELArs BUNGAROiDEsf. El. superne lividus, 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. lxvi. p. /3. 

 t From its resemblance to Bungarm cceruktts, Daudin. 



