396 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
NOTES ON SOME CEYLON SNAKES. 
By Lieut.-Colonel F. Watt, C.M.G., C.M.Z.S., F.L.8., IMLS. 
R. PEARSON has submitted me for examination two 
2 collections of snakes, one from Anasigalla Estate, 
Matugama, Kalutara District, at about 50 feet elevation 
above sea level, made by Mr. W. W. H. Phillips, and the 
other from Vavuniya, in the Northern Province, made by the 
District Mudaliyar. 
Both collections are of unusual interest, as they were made 
during the months July to September, during a period when 
many snakes are breeding, and the fact that the collectors 
affixed dates to their captures makes both collections excep- 
tionally valuable. If others would collect with similar care, 
a very great deal of information would soon be available 
regarding the diet, breeding, distribution, &c., of Ceylon 
snakes, about which we now know very little or nothing. 
Family TYPHLOPIDA., 
TYPHLOPS BRAMINUS (Daudin). 
A specimen 140 mm, (53 inches) long was extracted from 
the stomach of an Ancistrodon hypnale from Anasigalla. The 
head is semi-digested, but the scale rows 20, a tail ending in 
a caudal spine, and the colour all agree with braminus. 
Family ILYSHDA, 
CYLINDROPHIS MACULATUS (Linné). 
Five Specimens. AI] from Anasigalla. 





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