NAIA. 



201 



The Cobras are represented by two species in the Malay 

 Peninsula : — 



23-29 scales across the ueck, 17-21 across the 

 body ; ventrals 163-200 ; no large occipital 

 shields N. triinulians, p. 201, 



19-21 scales across the neck, 15 across the 

 body ; ventrals 21 5-2G2 ; a pair of large occi- 

 pital shields behind the paiietals N. hxnigarus, p. 202. 



Fig. 60.— Head of Naia b 



la mncjarus. 



221. Naia tripudians.* 



Merrem, Tent. Svst. Amph. p. 147 (1820) ; Giinth. Kept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 338 (1804) jFayrer, Thanatoph. Ind. pis. i-vi (1874) ; Bouleng. 



Fami. Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 391, fig. (1890) ; id. Cat. Sn. iii,p. 380 



(1896) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 690. 

 Naia spidcttrix, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 557. 

 Naia lutescens, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, p. 1038 



(1847). 



Malay name, iJlar tedong sendoTc. 



E-ostral broader than deep, its upper portion measuring one 

 fourth to one half its distance from the fromtal ; internasal in 



* The Cobra occurring in ,the Malay Peninsula does not belong to the 

 typical form •with a spectacle-like marking on the hood, but to the vars. fasciata. 

 Gray, spufairia:, Boie, and kncodim, Blgr. The present diagnosis applies only 

 to these. 



