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E. T^NiURUS, Cope. 



Olive, with black interrupted dorsal stripe and caudal 

 black stripe inferiorly margined with white. 



COMPSOSOMA, D. and B. 



Body elongate, compressed, head narrow, snout long, tail 

 moderate. Eye moderate. Scales 19-23 keeled. Ventrals 

 above 200. Anal generally entire. Head-shields normal; 

 generally 1 preocular; 2 nasals. Teeth numerous, equal. 

 Of large size. 



C.^RADIATUM, Remivcmlt. Plate XII, fig. 4. The red dhdman. 



Scales 19, middle rows strongly keeled. Ventrals 222-248, 

 subc. 67-95. Labials 9 (4, 5 and 6). 



Preocular and loreal have a rough porous appearance. 

 Frontals square. Iris golden. Colour bright chestnut, dark- 

 ening posteriorly; three anterior black dorsal stripes, the 

 upper broad, the middle interrupted, the outer interstitial. 

 From the eye radiate three black streaks, one down, one 

 downwards and backwards, one horizontally along the occi- 

 pitals joining a broad black nuchal band. This snake puffs 

 out its throat vertically and rises like a cobra, showing the 

 beautiful interstitial pattern of the neck, and looking aslant. 

 Hence known by the Burmese as the side-looking snake 

 (gnan zow). Grows to six feet, tail one-fifth. 

 Common in Burma. 



C. MELANURUM, Schlegel. 



Scales 19. Labials 9 (4, 5 and 6). Brown anteriorly, 

 black posteriorly; anterior yellow black-edged vertebral 

 stripe; three inferior ocular streaks; belly yellow, black 

 posteriorly. 



Java and Archipelago. 



C. RETICULARE, Cccntov, 



Scales 21 (or 19) rows. Anal entire. Labials 8 (4, 5 & 6). 

 Brown, behind black ; with whitish cross-bands, sometimes 



