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bial series, aud the intcrniisal meeta the Ist aud 2nd supralabials. In fronti 

 cinrius the nasal touches the 1st and 2nd supralabials, and the internasai 

 touches no supralabial owing to its contact with the anterior lorcai. 



The habitat is now still further extended into the Eastern Himalayas. 



Bnnqarim lividus. — Cantor. 



I obtained three specimens all from Tindharia, and examined another in 

 the St. Joseph's College collection. The ventrals and subcaudals •were a.s 

 follows:— 212 4- 3G, 211 + 35,209 + 37 aud 212 + 38. The vertebral row 

 was but feebly enlarged in all on the body but quite as well developed on the 

 tail as in other species of the genus where they are well developed on the body 

 as c(truleus, niger, etc. The habitat of this species is now extended to the Eastern 

 Himalayas. 



Bungarus niger. — Spec. nov. 



I acquired 8 specimens of a krait with which I have become familiar in 

 Assam as a fairly common species in that locality. As the majority of the 

 specimens I have seen come from that region, I am describing and figming it in 

 a paper on the snakes of Assam. Two of these specimens were from Tin- 

 dharia, four from Pashok and two dubiously from either Pashok or Tindharia. 

 The ventrals ranged between 221 and 231, and the subcaudals from 51 to 57. 

 The vertebrals are as much enlarged as in cceruleus, being as broad or broader 

 than long. It is completely black dorsally like Uvidus but is a larger snake. 

 Two specimens measured just four feet. 



Bungarus bungarokles (Cantor). 



I failed to obtain a specimen of this rare snake, but examined one in the 

 DarjeeUng Museum and two others in St. Joseph's College collection. The 

 ventrals and subcaudals were 233 + 49, the 1st to the 4th of the latter entire : 

 232 + 51, the 2nd to the 6th of the latter entire ; and 238 + 48, the 2nd sub- 

 oaudal only entire. The black bauds are mostly complete as in the species 

 fasciatus and ceylonicm. Mr. de Abreu told me he had but once acquii-ed this 

 .snake at Kurseong during five years' collecting. This was found after dark in a 

 bathroom of one of the boys at Victoria School. The ventrals and subcaudals 

 were 237 + 51, the 3rd, 4th and 5th only of the latter entire. 



N aia trlpudlans. — Merrem. 

 Nine examples were received, eight from Pashok, the ninth from either 

 Pashok or Tindharia. All belonged to variety/aswato (Gray). 



Naia bungarus. — Schlegel. 

 I obtained no specimen, but examined one in the Darjeeling Museum and 

 two in St. Joseph's College collection. The costals in all are 17 at a point two 

 heads-lengths behind the head, 15 at midbody, and at a point two heads-lengths 

 before the anus 15. The rows become 15 owing to a fusion of the 3rd and 4th 

 rows above the ventrals. The ventrals and subcaudals were 237 + 80 V: 

 239+91, the first of the latter entire ; 250+80, the first 7 subcaudals 

 entire. 



