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Nom. indig. Ular weling (mal.); oraj weling (sund.). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Lower Langkat) '); Java (Batavia!, 

 Buitenzorg!, Anjer, Krawang!, Depok, Sukabumi!, Kudus near 

 Semarang!, Kediri!, Ambarawa, Prigan 1800 — 2300 feet, Tengger 

 Mts. 1200 M.); Celebes (Manado, Minahassa). — Penang; 

 Malay Peninsula; Siam: Indo China; S. China; Burma; India. 



Feeds on snakes, toads, lizards and small mammals. The 

 female of the Krait as it is called in British India, deposits 

 6 — 10 eggs in holes in the ground. 



3. Bungarus flaviceps Reinh. 



Btingariis fav'iccps^ Reinhardt, Vidensk. Selsk. Skiift. X 1843, P- 267, pi. Ill, fig. 4. 

 Btmganis Jlaviceps^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 371. 



Rostral more broad than deep, visible from above; inttr- 

 nasals much shorter than the praefrontals; frontal as long as 

 its distance from the tip of the snout, shorter than the parietals; 

 one prae- and two postoculars; temporals i + 2, seven upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye; three or four lower 

 labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields ; latter as long 

 as the posterior. Scales in 13 rows, vertebrals much enlarged; 

 ventrals 193 — 230; anal entire; subcaudals 42 — 54, partly single, 

 partly in two rows. 



Black above, with or without a yellow vertebral line, a 

 yellow lateral line along the two outer rows of scales; some- 

 times a series of yellow dots along the vertebral line; head 

 red or yellow, sometimes with a black marking; tail and some- 

 times the posterior part of the body orange-red, with or 

 without pairs of black annuli, enclosing a yellowish- white, black- 

 spotted region. Lower surface brown or yellow with brown- 

 edged shields. Length of head and body 1630 mm.; tail 220 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Deli, Asahan, Indragiri, Padang!); Java; 

 Borneo (Kina Balu, Baram, Kuching, Sibu, Simanggang, Pang- 

 kalan ampat, Balikpapan). — Penang; Malay Peninsula; Cochin 

 China; Tenasserim. 



59. N a j a Laurenti. 



(Laurenti, Syn. Rept. p. 90, 1768). 

 Head not or slightly distinct from neck; eye rather large; 



i) See Werner, Zool Jahrb. Syst. XIII 1900, p. 491. 



