306 BUmiA, lT:i PEOPLE ASD PRODUCTIOXS. 



Colour bri;;lit pci-oen, jiuler below, occasionally brown. A yellow line along each side 

 of the belly. Grows to 72 inches. 



Inhabits India, Upper Burma, and Xorthern Pegu. 



Famili/ Dipsadidse. 

 Body elongate, compressed. Head distinct, sub-triangular. Eye large, with 

 vertical pupil. Scales smooth. 



DiPSAS. 



D. MULTniACULATA, Schl. 



Head triangular, body much compressed, vertically. Scales smooth, in 17 or 19 

 rows. Tlie vertebral series enlarged. Colour pale reddish-olive, with a series of round 

 brown spots, pale within, and bordered with white, down each side of the spine, and 

 with a smaller and less distinct series below them. Grows to 35 inches. 



Inhabits Pegu and Tenasserira. A very common and handsome snake. 



D. IIEXAGONOTA, Blyth. 



Scales smooth, in 17 to 21 rows. The vertebrals enlarged. Colour red on back 

 and sides. Below white. A black dot on the occipitals, and sometimes a black 

 median streak anteriorly. Grows to 4.5 inches. 



Inhabits Sikkim and the Andamans. 



D. ocHRACEA, Theobald. 



Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Vertebrals enlarged. Upper labials 9, the fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth entering the orbit ; the fifth small ; the three next very large. Colour 

 uniform dusky grey, or ochraceous. Below whitish. Grows to 35 inches. 



Inliabits Pegu and Martaban. 



Ophites, Waaler. 



Scales keeled, in 17 rows. Jfostril between two shields. Pupil erect. An 

 enlarged tooth anteriorly in both jaws. 



0. FASCiATCs, Anderson. 



The long lorcal enters the orbit. One prreocular. Two postoculars. 8 upper 

 labials, third,' fourth, and fifth entering the orbit. Scales feebly keeled, in 17 rows. 

 Keels more pronounced posteriorly. Anal entire. Ventrals 213. Subcaudals 90. 

 Body encircled by 55 broad purplish black bands, separated by reddish interspaces 

 of half their width. Head above dark-brown. 



Head and body 16-6G; tail 4-3-l=21 inches. 

 Ponsee in Yunan. 



Family Lycodontidae. 



Eye small, with vertical pupil. Head somewhat elongate and depressed. 

 Lycodon, Boie. 



L. AULICUS, L. 



Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Prfcfrontals very small. Loreal large, its anterior 

 angle being inserted between the pra;- and post-frontals. Nostril sm.-ill, between 

 two shields. Colour reddish brown, barred and reticulated with yellow or white. 

 Sometimes uniform, without conspicuous markings. A collar on the nape in young 

 individuals. Some specimens much resemble the poisonous Bungonm ccerideiis, but 

 the lorcal shield shows they are harndess. This is the ' carpet snake ' of India, so 

 much dreaded. 



Grows to 24 inches, and ranges throughout India and Burma. 



Ului'e, TV. T. lilanfonl. 



Body slender, compressed. Loreal and prreocular united. Nasal one. Scales 

 smooth, in 13 rows. Ventrals keeled. Pupil vertical. 



