JOURNAL 



OP THE 



BOMBAY 



Uatxtrnl pistorg Sorictn. 



Vol. XIX. BOMBAY. Nd. 3. 



A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE COMMON INDIAN 



vSNAKES. 



Illustrated by Coloured Plateh and Diagrams. 



BY 



Major F. Wall, I.M.S., C.M.Z.S. 



Part XI ivitli Plate XJ and Diagram and Map. 



( Continued from page 299 of this Volume.) 



The genus Uligodon as regarded by Mr. Boulenger in 1894* com- 

 prised 18 species, 17 of which were known to inhabit Southern Asia 

 from Baluchistan in the West to the Philippines in the East ; the one 

 exception being an Egyptian snake. Since this date Mr. Boulenger 

 has described two new species, viz.^ erijthroyastei' from Nepal, f 

 and herbertii'vom Mogok in U})per Burma,! and given his authority foi- 

 the inclusion in this genus of the Andaman snake imodmasoni^ 

 which he had previously regarded as a Simotes. 



I have also added three new sjjecies, viz., mcdougalli^i Ironi Sando- 

 way, Burma, melaneu.s\\ Irom Tindharia iii the Eastern Himalayas and 

 erythi'oriiach.ia from Naiivvang, Assam, the description of which will 



• Catuloj^'ue, Vol. 11, p. -16\i. t Kecurde, Ind. Miis., Yo.. 1, Part. Ill, I'.ioT. 



X Bomb. Nit. Hist. Jourl.. XVI, p 23.). § Annandule. J. A. S., Ben-jal, llMi;'), p. \TA. 

 t Bomb. Nat. Hist. Jourl.. XVl, p. zb\. \\ Bomb. Nat. Hist. Jourl., Vol, XIX., p. 34<t. 

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