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c. Adult. Bengal. Presented by General Hardvvicke. 



d. Adult. India. Old Collection. 



e. Adult : head and tail. India. Old Collection. 

 /, g. Adult. India. Colonel Cobbe's Collection. 



A. Trunk of an adult. India. Presented by Captain Stafford. 

 i. Half-grown. India. Presented by W. Masters, Esq. 

 k. Adult. India. 



Var. B. White marks of head and neck visible only in young 

 individuals ; in adult ones, head, neck, and foremost part of trunk 

 uniform black : it does not appear to grow to the same size as 

 the preceding variety. 



I. Adult. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



m. Adult : not good state. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, 



Esq. 

 re. Half- grown. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection, 

 o. Nearly half-grown. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 p. Nearly half-grown. Ceylon. Presented by Capt. Gascoigne. 

 q. Young. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, Esq. 

 r. Young. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 s. Young. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



3. BUNGARUS SEMIFASCIATUS. 



Coluber candidus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Fried, t. /. f. 1. Bungarus 

 semifasciatus, Kuhl, Isis, 1827, p. 552; Schleg. Ess. pi. 16. 



f. 18-20, and Abbildg. t. 18. f. 6-10; Bum. Sf Bibr. p. 1271. 

 Aspidoclonion semifasciatum, Wagl. Syst. p. 193, and Icon. t. 2. 



Back with large dark brown cross bands ; belly uniform 

 whitish. 



a. Adult. China. 



b. Adult. East Indies. 



c. Adult. East Indies. From the Haslar Collection. 



4. Bungarus flaviceps. 



Reinhardt, Bet Kongel. Banske Vidensk. Afhandl. x. t. 3. f. 5 ; 

 Cantor, Catal. p. 1 12 ; Bum. 8f Bibr. p. 1274. Megrerophis for- 

 raosus, Gray, Ann. $ Mag. N. H. 1849, p. 247. 



Head and vertebral line red (in spirits yellow). 



a. 5 feet long. Borneo. From Mr. Lowe's Collection. 



b. 5\ feet long*. Borneo. From Mr. Lowe's Collection. 



c. 5 feet long. Borneo. Presented by Sir James Brooke. 



d. Half-grown. Borneo. Presented by Sir James Brooke. 



e. 5 feet long. Sumatra. From the Collection of tlie Zoological 



Society. 



* Cfr. M. Dumeril's sic, p. 1275. 



