igog.] 



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all from F3'zabad in the United Provinces. I have lately- 

 had opportunities of examining six more examples. In the 

 museum of St. Joseph's College, Darjiling, I found two speci- 

 mens labelled cceruleus which had formed part of the collection 

 of the late Dr. Vincent Richards. Here I would recall the fact 

 that this investigator succumbed to the wounds inflicted by a krait 

 which may have been one of these specimens. This is by no 

 means certain, as there are also in his original collection, now at 

 St. Joseph's College, two specimens of cceruleus. The Principal of 

 the College told me that his death is attributed to one of these 

 snakes, but could not be sure which, and I can get no further 

 information of the fatality. One of the walli could not, I think, 

 have inflicted the injury, as its mouth is full, with the caudal 

 extremities of two slow-worms (?) [0. gracilis ?) protruding. 



Unless the coloration of one of these specimens is due to 

 the quality of the preservative, it must be considered a melano, 

 as the under parts and the upper lip are black. The usual beaded, 

 white, equidistant dorsal arches are, however, quite distinct. 

 The localities of these two specimens are not recorded, but it is 

 probable they were obtained from Bengal. The other four speci- 

 mens alluded to are in the Indian Museum. Three of these are 

 old, and were referred to cceruleus. The last is the large specimen 

 referred to by Dr. Annandale as sindanus (/. A. S. Bengal, 1905 

 p. 213), I give the details of these specimens in tabular form : — 



The largest measurement now recorded is that of the Midna- 

 pore example (5 feet 4I inches). 



Amhlycephalus modestus, Theobald. 



I have examined the type and only known specimen of this 

 snake, which has only been imperfectly described, and propose to 

 give a full description here. 



Description.— Rostral in contact with 6 shields, the anterior 

 nasal sutures greater than the internasals. Internasals : suture 

 between the fellows two-thirds that between the prsefrontal 

 fellows, one-third the internaso-prsefrontal sutures. Prsefrontals : 



