NAIA. 



391 



B. A pair of large shields behind parietals ; 19- 

 21 scales across neck, 15 across middle of 

 bod}' ; subcaudals 80-107, anterior usually 

 single iV^. hungarus, p. 392. 



485. Naia tripudians. 



Russell, hid. Serp. \, pis. v & vi, and ii, pi. i. 



Coluber naia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 3S2. 



Naia lutescens, Lain: Syn. Ropf. p. 91 ; Cantor, J. A. S. B. xvi, 



1847, p. 1088. 

 Naia tripudians, Merr. Tent. ^. 1^1 ; Gray, III. Lid. Zool. ii, pis. 



Ixxvii-lxxix ; Duni. ^- Bibr. Erp. Gen. vii, p. 1293; G'dnth. Rept. 



B. I. p. 338 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2,_p._211 ; 



Fayrer, Thanatoph. pis. i-vi ; Jan, Icon. Ophid. 45, pi. i, fig. 3 ; 



Theoh. Cat. p. 208 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, p. 241; Murray, 



Zool. Sind, p. 387 ; Boettg. Zool. Jahrb. iii, 1888, p. 943. 

 Tomyris oxiana, Eichw. Zool. Spec, iii, p. 171, and Faun. Casp.-Canc. 



p. 130, pi. XX. 

 Naia larvata. Cantor, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 32. 

 Naia atra, Cantor, A. M. N. H. ix, 1842, p. 482. 

 Naia oxiana, Stranch, Bull. St. Petersb. xiii, 1868, p. 87 ; Bouleng. 



Tr. Linn. Soc. (2) v, 1889, p. 103, pi. xi, fig. 2. 





Fig. 115. — Naia tripudians. 

 Eostral a little broader than deep, visible from above ; inter- 



