170 JOURNAL, BOHBAt NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVI' 



DlPSADOMORPHUS CYANEA. 



This snake I consider is a very rare one in Burma, On the 1st instant I 

 was fortunate in receiving a very fine female ; she was killed in a garden at 

 Kokine some three miles from town. 



Rostral just visible from above. 



Loreal depth slightly less than length. 



Temporals 2 + 4 R, 2 + 3 L. 



Ventrals 247. 



Subcaudals 124. 



Length 4'-9" ; tail, which was whip-like, 14". 

 Colour above, a uniform dark, grass green ; under jaws bluish white 

 turning to slight yellow at fifth ventral, after which the colour was 

 more pronounced. The specimen was rather mutilated about the 

 body. I found on opening up a wound into the abdominal cavity two 

 eggs uninjured, two damaged. There may have been others which were 

 destroyed. 



The eggs measured 1*25" x '62". There was no trace of an embryo ; 

 the contents consisted of a thick creamy material of a pale yellow 

 colour. 



The food, etc., of Chrysopelea ornata. 

 In Boulenger's Reptilia and Batrachia, page 372, it is stated that "it feeds 

 almost exclusively on Geckos." I believe that Geckos do constitute a main 

 feature in their bill of fare. It is clear, however, that they are not averse to 

 an occasional change. On the 8th July 1900 Captain Wall and I received a 

 specimen which contained a bat, Taphozons longimanus. Two specimens since 

 sent to me each contained a bat, unfortunately too far digested for easy 

 recognition. It is notable that these two specimens were killed about houses, 

 that is on creepers over the trellis work of porches, where there is little 

 doubt they found bats an easy prey. Another specimen I caught while it 

 was lying on a bamboo contained a flying lizard, which I made out to be 

 Draco tazniopterus. 



With regard to the breeding of this snake. In a paper on Burmese Snakes, 

 Vol. XIII, page 614, Captain Wall and I mentioned a specimen with two 

 enlarged ovarian follicles received on 27th May 1900 ; again in same paper a 

 specimen received on 26th June 1900 containing 9 eggs (5 in one ovary, 4 in the 

 other). 



Since this, specimens have been received by me ; one female on 3rd June 

 1904 containing 11 eggs (7 in one ovary, 4 in the other) : a brood of young 

 (6) found by a Mali on 14th June which measured from 4|" to 6": in August 

 two young specimens, from size perhaps 6 weeks old. One measured 13^", 

 tail 2|"; the other 14", tail 3|". In Vol. XIII, page 345, Captain Wall 

 and I described the colour of a young specimen which differs from that of 

 the adult, and I have observed that all the young specimens are as we then 

 described. 



