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It struck out .several times, but I find that if one is on the alert 

 with these snakes, one can see and evade the stroke, so that it 

 cannot be considered very rapid. With many snakes on the other 

 hand one has no chance of avoiding the stroke, such for instance as 

 Tropidonotus piscator and Echis earivata. 



It is to be noted that the scales posteriorly reduce to 17 which is 

 remarkable, as many of the species of this genus have 21 scale 

 rows in midbody, and in all except this they reduce to 15. I have 

 now examined 10 specimens, and in only one did the scales reduce to 

 15. The absorption of rows is the same as in the other species. The 

 scales become 19 by the absorption of the uppermost into the 

 vertebral and very shortly afterwards the 3rd and 4th rows above 

 the ventrals coalesce. 



Dipsadomorpits cynodon (Boie). 



A single specimen was seen to fall (or spring ?) from a palm 

 tree about 20 feet high in Dibrugarh and was pursued and 

 killed. It conformed to variety* B of Boulenger's Catalogue 



* I may here remark that last year I obtained two well grown examples of this snake 

 from Mr. Jacob from Jalpaignri, which is in the same Tract zoologically as that to which 

 this paper rufers- They were of the same variety as my A seam specimen and agreed with 

 it in ihe lepidoais just referred to except that the venttals andsubcaa lals were 255 + 126 and 

 266 + l2'>. The absorption of the costal rows agreed except that in the step from 19 to 

 17, the -Ith row ab ve the ventrals was absorbed into one of the adjacent rows. Mr. Jacob 

 wrote that one of these 'pscimens was beiag attacked by a banded KrMt{Bnngarus fat^- 

 v.iatus), and he shot the latter and then killed the former 



