198 COLUBRID,!:. 



Geuus BUNGAKUS. 

 Daud. Hist. Kept, v, p. 263 (1803). 



Poison-fangs followed by one to four small teeth. Head not or 

 but slightly distinct from neck ; eye small, with round or verti- 

 cally subelliptic Jjupil ; nostril between two nasals; no loreal. 

 Scales smooth, oblique, without pits, in 13 to 17 rows, vertebral 

 row enlarged, hexagonal ; ventrals rounded. Tail moderate or 

 short; subcaudals single or in two rows. 



South-Eastern Asia. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



Tail ending very obtusely ; subcaudal shields single ; 



anterior temporal shield scarcely longer than 



deep ; scales in 15 rows B.fasciatus, p. 198. 



Tail tapering to a point ; subcaudal shields single ; 



anterior temporal much longer than deep ; scales 



in 15 rows B. Candidas, p. 199. 



Tail tapering to a point ; subcaudal shields partly 



single, partly double ; scales in 13 rows B.jlaviceps^ p. 200. 



-18. Bungarus fasciatus. 



Pseudohoa faiciata, Schneid. Hist. Aniph. ii, p. 283 (1801). 



Bunt/arus fasciatus, Cantor, Jouru. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, p. 1034 

 (1847) ; Ghnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 343 (1864) ; Fayrer, Thana- 

 toph. Iiid. pi. ix (1874) ; Bouleng. Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 388 

 (1890) ; id. Cat. Sn. iii, p. 366 (1896) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, 

 p. 689 ; Wall, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombav, xx, p. 933, pi. xv 

 (1911). 



Rostral much broader than deep ; frontal longer than broad, as 

 long as or longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as 

 long as or a little shorter than the parietals ; one praj- and two 

 postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2, anterior scarcely longer than deep; 

 7 upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye. An obtuse 

 keel or ridge along the back and tail ; latter ending very obtusely. 

 Scales in 15 rows, vertebrals much enlarged, broader than long. 

 Ventrals 200-234 ; anal entire; subcaudals single, 23-39. Annu- 

 late black and yellow, the black anuuli as broad as the j^ellow or 

 broader; head yellow, with a black band, widened behind, beginning 

 between the eyes and extending to the nape ; snout brown. Iris 

 black; tongue flesh-coloured. 



Total length 1450 millim. ; tail 130. 



India, Burma, Southern China to Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and 

 Java. Generally distributed in the Malay Peninsula, but nowhere 

 common. 



According to Plower, this snake is popularly confounded with 



