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v. Half-grown : bad state. India. Presented by General Hard- 

 wieke. 



0. Half-grown : bad state. India. From M. Parzudaki's Col- 

 lection. 



%. Young. India. 



Var. F. Naja sputatrix, (Reinw.) Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 556; IVuyl. 

 Syst. Amph. p. 173; Gray, bid. Zool. pi. . N. tripudians, 

 var. nigra. 



Uniform black, without spectacles. Scales in the middle of 

 body, generally in nineteen rows, sometimes in seventeen, some- 

 times in more. 



i/*-. Adult female. Borneo. From Mr. Frank's Collection as N. 

 unicolor ; exhibits only seventeen longitudinal rows of scales 

 and two posterior oculars. 

 o>. Adult. Borneo. Presented by Sir J. Brooke. 

 aa. Adult. Borneo. Presented by Sir J. Brooke. 

 bb. Adult : injured. Borneo. Presented by Sir J. Brooke. 

 cc. Adult. Borneo ? Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher. 

 dd. Young. Sumatra. From the Leyden Museum. A hardly 



visible whitish mark on the neck. 

 ee. Adult : not good state. Philippines. From Mr. Cuming's 



Collection. 

 ff. Half-grown. Asia. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



By the specimens of our Collection are shown : — 



1. The number of longitudinal rows of scales is subject to great 

 variation on the anterior parts of body, and is more constant 

 towards the tail : all the varieties exhibit there 13 or 15 rows. 



2. The varieties with spectacles appear to come from the East 

 Indian Continent and Ceylon, those without marks from the 

 Islands. 



3. In the latter the ribs are shorter, the neck less distensible, 

 and consequently the number of scales smaller. 



2. Naja haje. 



Seba, ii. 84. 2. Coluber haje, Linn. Mus. Ad. Fried, ii. p. 46, 

 and Syst. Nat. i. p. 387 ; Hasselqu. Reise, p. 366. Vipera 

 haje, Daud. Rept. vi. p. 41. Naja haje, Merr. Tent. p. 148 ; Cuv. 

 Regne Avira. ; Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 556 ; Schleg. Ess. t. 17. f. 4, 5 ; 

 Dum. $ Bihr. p. 1298; Smith, III. of S. Afr. Rept. t. 18-21 ; 

 Geoffr. Descr. de VEg. t. ?. f. 1-3; Suppl. t. 3; A. Dum. Rer. 

 et Mag. Zool. 1856, p. 554. Urseus haje, Wagl. Syst. p. 173. 



Sixth upper labial united with temporal, and forming a very- 

 large shield in contact with oculars ; generally without marks on 

 the neck. 



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