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A male captured at Rangoon measured : body ll'OO, tail 

 1-50-12-50. 



Inhabits Pegu (Theobald) (not the West Indies, as stated in 

 the British Museum Catalogue of Snakes, 1849, p. 77) and 

 Ceylon (Furguson). i 



Cantoeia, Gerard. 

 Body long and slender. Head not distinct from the neck. 

 Anterior frontal single. One loreal. Eye small and surrounded 

 by a circle of orbital plates. Scales smooth in 19 rows. 



C. Dayana, Stol. J. A. S., 1870, p. 208. 



Rostral pentagonal, broad, deeply indented below, very nar- 

 row above with concave sides. Anterior frontal almost linear, 

 touches the rostral and scarcely longer than the two large elon- 

 gate quadrangular nasals. Five high upper labials, the suture of 

 the third and fourth being below, but not entering the orbit. 

 One narrow and high prseocular, and two postoculars, the lower 

 joining the prteocular. Anal bifid. 



Colour above dull yellow, with numerous bluish black bands 

 with interspaces narrow above, wider below. Head dark on the 

 top, with a yellow band across the posterior frontals, and a few 

 yeUow spots on occipitals and vertical. 



Bellow pale yellow with a dusky greenish tinge along the 

 centre of belly. 



Length 30- 50 inches. (Tail 3-5.) 



Inhabits Estuaries of Pegu (mouth of Maulmein River). 



FoRDONiA, Gray. 



Body stout, cylindrical. Head depressed, not distinct from 

 neck. One anterior frontal. Eye small, with vertical pupil. 

 Scales smooth in 25 to 29 rows. 



F. bicolor, Theobald. Jour, Lin. Soc, Vol. X. 

 Scales in 25 rows. Occipitals large. One prseocular. Two 

 postoculars. Anterior frontal small. Loreal none. Upper 

 labials 5. Eye over the fifth. 



