174 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA 
NOTES. 
1. Occurrence of the Indian Snake Lycodon striatus in Ceylon.— 
The first authentic record of Lycodon striatus occurring in Ceylon 
is by E. E. Green (Spolia Zeylanica, vol. Il., March, 1905, 
p. 205). 
While recently in Ceylon Mr. E. E. Green presented me with 
five specimens which he believed to be of this species. I have 
examined these, and agree with him as to their identity, and I 
am much indebted to him for the privilege of being able to see 
them, and make the following remarks. 
All the specimens are adult and were obtained in Peradeniya. 
I find them typical of the Indian variety in shield and scale charac- 
ters, but they differ somewhat in colour. Thus the following 
characters demand special mention: (1) the snout is not spatulate ; 
(2) the loreal is single and touches the internasal; (3) the pre- 
ocular does not meet the frontal; (4) the nasal touches the first 
and second supralabials (except on one side in one specimen, 
where only the first supralabial is in contact); (5) the supralabials 
are eight, and the third, fourth, and fifth touch the eye; (6) 
the ventrals are not angulate ; (7) the anal is divided, except 
in one specimen ; (8) the scales are seventeen at a point two heads’ 
length behind the head, seventeen in mid-body. and fifteen at a 
point two heads’ length before the vent, and all are smooth. 
The occipito-nuchal and dorsal bars. are brown or buff and 
are thus far more indistinct than in the Indian form, where I have 
always found them pure white and well defined. 
The ventrals and subcaudals are as follows: (1) 150 + 39 (anal 
entire) ; (2) 155 + 35; (3) 158+ 2 (tail docked) ; (4) 164 + ? (tail 
docked) ; (5).°159 + 34 (tail slightly docked). 
F, WALL, C.M.ZS.., 
Calcutta, February 17, 1907. Major, I.M.S. 
2. The Common Indian Krait, Bungarus candidus, in Ceylon.— 
Whilst going through the collection of snakes preserved in the 
Colombo Museum I discovered a bottle containing a specimen 
labelled Bungarus ceylonicus, from Polgahawela, presented by 
Mr. J. Rudd, which I have no doubt is in reality a typical specnael 
of the Indian Krait, B. candidus (variety ceruleus). 
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