JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOMBAY 

 Vol. XIX. BOMBAY. No. 3. 



A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE COMMON INDIAN 



SNAKES. 



Illustrated by Coloured Plates and Diagrams. 



by 



Major F. Wall, I.M.S., C.M.Z.S. 



Part XI loith Plate XI and Diagram and Map. 



( Continued from page 299 of this Volume.) 



The genus Oligodon as regarded by Mr. Boulenger in 1894* com- 

 prised 18 species, 17 of which were known to inhabit Southern Asia 

 from Baluchistan in the West to the Philippines in the East ; the one 

 exception being an Egyptian snake. Since this date Mr. Boulenger 

 has described two new species, viz., ery thro g aster from Nepal, t 

 and herberti from. Mogok in Upper Burma, J and given his authority for 

 the inclusion in this genus of the Andaman snake woodmasoni§ 

 which he had previously regarded as a Simotes. 



I have also added three new species, viz., mcdougalli^ from Sando- 

 way, Burma, melaneus\\ from Tindharia in the Eastern Himalayas and 

 erythrorhachis from Nanwang, Assam, the description of which will 



* Catalogue, Vol. II, p. 233. t Records, Ind. Mus., Yol. I, Part. Ill, 1907. 



% Bomb. N<it. Hist. Jourl., XVI, p. 23,). § Annandale, J. A. S., Bengal, 1905, p. 173. 

 f Bomb. Nat. Hist. Jourl., XVI, p, 251. |] Bomb. Nat. Hist. Jourl., Vol. XIX., p. 349. 

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