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vertebral line bright coral red. Belly red or black anteriorly, 

 red posteriorly. 



Grows to 73 inches. (Tail 9.) 



Inhabits Tenasserim, Pinang, Java, Sumatra and Borneo, 



Sub-order 3. Viperine Snakes. 



Snakes furnished with long tubular erectile fangs on an 

 extremely short maxillary bone. 



Family ViPERiDiE. 



Body stout. Tail short. Head broad. No pit in the loreal 

 region. Eye with vertical pupil. Scales keeled. Physiognomy 

 repulsive. Viviparous. 



Daboia, Qray. 



Head covered with scales. Nostril lateral, extremely large, 

 between three shields. A narrow superciliary shield. Scales 

 strongly keeled in 29 to 31 rows. Subcaudals bifid. 



D. Russellii, Shaw. 



Vipera clegans, Daud. 



Colour above greyish or reddish brown, with three rows of 

 black, white-edged annular ocelli down the back and sides. The 

 vertebral series ovate, the outer ones circular. Sometimes sup- 

 plementary ocelli of small size interspersed below between the 

 others. A broad arrow mark on the head formed by two pale 

 lines from the snout over the eyes to the temporal region- 

 Rostral and labials yellowish with brown margins. A brown 

 spot below the eye and head elegantly marbled. Belly yellowish 

 or marbled with brown, and with numerous semi-circular spots 

 on the hind margins of the ventrals. 



Grows to 54 inches. 



Inhabits Northern, Central, and Southern India, the Panjab, 

 Kashmir, the Himalayas up to 5,000 feet, Bengal, Ceylon, Arakan, 

 and Pegu, and perhaps Tenasserim, but I have no certain record 

 of it below Rangun. 



This snake, called ' Tic-pcelonga' in Ceylon, ' Chanda-hora' or 

 Uloo-hora in Bengal, ' Mhor bhvji in Barma, and Cobra monil 



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