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oculars 2. Temporal i, touching the 5th and 6th supralabials. 

 Supralabials 7, the 2nd much narrower than the ist and 3rd, the 

 3rd and 4th touching the e3^e. Infralabials 4, the 4th largest, and 

 in contact with two scales behind. Sublinguals 2 subequal pairs, 

 the posterior touching the 4th only of the infralabial series. 

 Costals two headslengths after head 15, midbod}" 15, two heads- 

 lengths before vent 15 ; vertebrals as broad as long or broader in 



Part of body of Bungarus magnimaculatiis , J size, showing two of the light 

 bands. 



midbod}'. Supracaudals in odd rows, the vertebrals enlarged. 

 Ventrals 218 to 228. Anal entire. Subcaudals 43 to 48, all entire. 

 Colour black with from eleven to fourteen light bands on the 

 body and two to three on the tail. These light bands are formed 

 of black and white streaks in the length of the snake, the vertebral 

 white streak being specially broad. The intervening black does 

 not extend to the belly, which is uniformly white. Some blackish 

 mottling is present beneath the tail. A white praeocular spot is 

 more or less evident. 



Habitat. — Known only from a very localised area in the 

 Irrawaddy basin. Details of the specimens follow in tabular form. 



Length. — The longest measurement is 4 feet. Nos. 4 and 5 are 

 the specimens referred to by Sclater (/. A. S. Bengal, Ix, p. 245). 



Bungarus walli, Wall. 



In the Journ. Bom. Nat. Hist. Sac, vol. xvii, p. 608, I 

 described a new krait founded on a series of eight specimens 



1 Tail very sUghtly imperfect. 



