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List of specimens of Naja naja atra. 



a Description, p. 395. 



b Boulenger, Cat. Ill, p. .384. 



cBoulenger, Cat. Ill, p. 383. 



d Boettger, 18S5, p. 127. 



e 25 to 27 scale rows round the neck, Boettger, I. c. 



Genus BUNGARUS" Daudin. 



1803. BungarKS DxvmN, Bull. Sw. Pliilom. Paii.-<. HI. Xc 72, March, 1803, p. 187 



(type, B . fascial u s) . 

 1811. Psi'udo-boa Oppel, Oidii. Ilept.. p. 68 (type, B.fasciutiis) (not of Sehneider, 



1801). 

 1828. Aspidodonion AVagler, Icon. Amph., I, fol. 2 (type, A. semifusciatum). 



BUNGARUS MULTICINCTUS 6 BIyth. 



1858. Bungarus semifasciatus Guenthek, Cat. Col. Snakes Brit. Mus., p. 221 

 (China) (not of Boie, 1827); Kept. Brit. India, 1864, p. 344 (China; For- 

 mosa).— Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), XII, 1863, p. 225 (Formosa; 

 Amoy, China). — Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 24-25 Ber., 1885, 

 p. 128 (Canton). 



1861. Bungarus m ulticiiictus Bi.YTM, J oiirn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XXIX, p. 98 (type- 

 locality, Formosa; type in CalcuttaMus.; Swinhoe, collector). — Boettger, 

 Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 26-28 Ber., 1888, pp. 86, 148 (South China; 

 Formosa).— Stejneger, Journ. Sci. Coll. Tokyo, XII, Pt. 3, 1898, p. 222 

 (Taijja, Formosa). 



1896. Bungarus candidus var. muUicinctus Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., Ill, 

 p. 369 (China; Formosa; Burma); Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 164 

 (Kuatiin, Fokien, China). — Bungarus candidus var. multicincta Boetp- 

 GER, Kat. Schl. Mus. Senckenberg., 1898, p. 119 (Canton). 



Three closely-related forms of the "Krait" differing in color but 

 apparently occupying distinct geographic areas are united by Bou- 



« Derived from "Buiigarum-pamah," which according to Russell's "Indian Ser- 

 pents" is the vernacular name for B.fasciatus on the coast of Coromandel, India. 

 & Signifying many-belted, i. e., with many crossbars. 



