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Mackenzie, my informant, says one of the sepoys of his detachment 

 was out after a khakur (^Cervulus muntjac). When he fired the 

 hamadryad went for him, and he fortunately shot it too. 



I have for many years been trpng to elicit information on the 

 breeding of this snake. Mr. A. J. Harrison told me that at Meckla 

 Nuddee (across the river above Dibrugarh) he has encountered 3 

 hamadryads in five years. One he saw in a hollow tree, on the ground 

 sitting on eggs. As he could not remember precisely the date, he sent 

 for two Miris who were with him at the time. They said it was in 

 the middle of Moy and that the eggs were about 30 in number. 

 Mr. Harrison shot the snake. These men said further that on their 

 way down to the Mills that day (l£th May), they had passed a similar 

 snake coiled upon her eggs, with her bead up and hood dilated as 

 they passed. They said you may always be sure they have eggs 

 when they sit like that ready to strike. 



Mr. W. A. Jacob, I. F. S., from whom I received a small hamadryad 

 from Jalpaiguri last year, told me that a pair of hamadryad were 

 reported as having been " seen in copula " and killed in a tea-garden 

 close to him at Jalpaiguri at the end of April or early May 1908. Mr, 

 Lister too, of Pashok near Darjeeling, told me that the natives around 

 him say that the hamadryad has young in April, and it appears a 

 female was killed there with 23 eggs in the abdomen. 



Dentition. — This in my large specimen is as follows : — Maxillary. — 

 Two large tubular fangs side by side anteriorly, followed after a gap 

 by 3 small teeth grooved on the outer sides. Palato-pterygoid 8 to 9 

 + 10 to 12, grooved on their inner faces. Mandibular 15, the 3rd 

 and 4th longest : grooved on their outer taces. The poison gland 

 measured 1|" x f" X t/ high. 



Callophis macclellandi (Reindardt) (vtir. nov. (jorei). 

 I received three specimens of a nev.' variety of this snake from 

 Mr. Gore from Jaipur.*" This I propose to call gorei. The general 

 colour of the snake is similar to that of the other varieties, viz., a bright 

 berry-red. 



It is peculiar in having no black rings round the body, and no black 

 vertebral line. This latter is replaced by a series of small distant black 

 spots. The type I sent to the British Museum and the second specimen 

 to our Society's collection. The type was a 9 1 foot 10 inches lono-^ 



See remarks on locality under 'J rac/iisc/iitnit vwiiti<-<jiu. 



