24 THE POISONOUS SNAKES OF INDIA. 



Dimensions. — Grows to 4^ feet. I have measured a skin 4 feet 

 6| inches. 



Colour.^Glistening black with linear, white arches thrown in pairs 

 across the back, sometimes more or less absent in front. Belly white. 



BTTITGARUS SINDANXTS-Tlio Sind Krait. 

 Called by the natives of Upper Sind " Pee-un ". 



Identification. — This has the scales over the back in 17 (or 19) rows, 

 and the first three supralabials equally broad. 



Supplementary characters. — The vertebrals are slightly longer than 

 broad in the middle of the body. The subcaudals are sometimes 

 divided towards the tip of the tail (as in fig. 9 C). 



Distribution. — Peculiar to Sind,* where it is reported to be common 

 in the upper part of that region. 



Poison. — Nothing known. 



Dimensions. — Grows to 6 feet. 



Colour. — Black with white cross bars most evident posteriorly. It is 

 extremely like the common krait, B. ccerukus in general appearance. 



BT7NGARUS "WALLI -"Wall's Krait. 



Identification. — Scales in 17 or 19 rows, and the vertebral row in 

 midbodv with scales much broader than long. 



Supplementary characters. — The 2nd supralabial is conspicuously 

 narrow, compared with the 1st and 3rd. The ventrals are fewer (198 

 or 207) than in sindanus (220 to 237). 



Distribution. — Known from the United Provinces (Fyzabad), 

 where I obtained 8 s})ecimens, Midnapore, and Purneah.t 



• See footnote to 2i. Walli. 

 1 1 have lately seen two specimens in St. Joseph's College (Darjeeling), part of Dr. Vincent 

 Kichard's collection, locality not known but probably Bengal. The specimen referred to 

 by Dr. Annandale from Midnapore (J. A. S. B. 190o 1-8 p. 13) as s;n(7a»j«« is this species 

 and I have seen o in the Indian Museum from Purueah. 



