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VENOMS 



This species is distributed throughout the whole of Southern 

 Asia, from the south of the Caspian Sea to South China and the 

 Malay Archipelago. 



Several varieties occur, and of these the principal are : — 



Pig. 25.— Skull of Naja trlpadiam. (After G. A. Boulenger, op. cit.) 



(1) Var. Tijpica (fig. 27), with a black-and-white spectacle- 

 shaped mark on the middle of the dorsal surface of the most 

 dilatable portion of the neck, and one or more dark transverse 

 bands on the ventral surface, behind the head. 



Habitat : India, Ceylon. 



