94 VENOMS 
This species is distributed throughout the whole of Southern 
Asia, from the south of the Caspian Sea to South China and the 
Malay Archipelago. 
Several varieties occur, and of these the principal are :— 
Fig. 25.— SkuLzz or Naja tripudians. (After G. A. Boulenger, op. cit.) 
(1) Var. Typica (fig. 27), with a black-and-white spectacle- 
shaped mark on the middle of the dorsal surface of the most 
dilatable portion of the neck, and one or more dark transverse 
bands on the ventral surface, behind the head. 
Habitat: India, Ceylon. 
