A 



OGlOl^ 



JOUliNAL 



OF THE 



BOMBAY 



^iodctn. 



Vol. XIX. 



BOMBAY. 



No. 4. 



A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE COMMON INDIAN 



SNAKES. 



Illustrated by Coloured Plates and Diagrams. 



BY 



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



Part XII with Plate XII and Diagram and Map. 



( Continued from page 5b3 of this Volume.) 



The genus Dendrophis as now understood comprises at least II 

 species, distributed in Southern Asia between India and Indo-China, 

 through the Malayan Archipelago to Eastern Australia. Of these 

 species 6 occur within our Indian limits, viz. (J) pictus (Eastern 

 Mengal, Eastern Himalayas, Irrawaddy-Salween basin, and Tenasserim 

 and further East to Indo-China), (2) grandoculis (Hills of Southern 

 India), (3) bifrenalis (Ceylon and Travancore Hills, Ferguson), 

 (4) caudolineatus (Ceylon), (5) and (6) gorei,* and proarchosf (Brahma- 

 j)Utra basin). 



Until 1890 several other species were included which have now 

 been grouped together on characters affecting dentition under a 

 -eparate genus called Dendrelaphis by Mr. Boulenger. This genue 

 includes o species found in Indian Territory, viz. (1) tristis (Penin- 

 sular India, Eastern Himalayas, Brahmaputra Valley and Ceylon) : 

 (2) subocularis (Hills of Upper Burma); and (3) biloreatusX (Brahma- 

 putra Basin), 



' iJescribed by me in this Juiuiial, \ ol. XIX., p. 1<21>. ■*" described by me in cliia 

 .Journal, Vol. XIX., p. 827. 



; Described by me in this Journal. Vol. XVIII., p. -'Ti!. 

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