272 Zoological Society. 



Genus Bungarus, Daudin. 



BuNGARUs LiviDus. Buug. supeme lividus, suhtus alho-Jlavescens. 



Scuta abdominalia 221. 



Scuta suhcaudalia 56. 

 Habitat. Asam. 

 Blackish-blue above, yellowish- white beneath. 



Genus Hamadryas*, Cantor. 



Hamadryas ophiophagus. Ham. supeme olivaceo-viridis, sirlis 

 sagittalibus nigr'is cinctiis, abdomine glauco nigra inarmorato. 

 Scuta abdominalia a 215 ad 245. 

 Scuta subcaudalia a IS ad 32. 

 Scutella subcaudalia a 63 ad 71. 

 Habitat. Bengal. 



Hindustanee name : Sunkr-Choar. 



Olive-green above, with arrow-shaped black stripes ; beneath, 

 glaucous marbled with black. 



Genus Naja, Laurenti. 



Naja larvata. Na. supra brunneaj striis subflavis transver salt- 

 bus variegata ; disco annulo albo, larvce haud imparl^ ornato, 

 pone quern (a tribus ad quinque) annuli albi ; — inferioris super- 

 Jiciei pars anterior annulis albis, nigro-ccerulescentibus alternis 

 circumdata, pars posterior glauco iridescens. 



Habitat. Bombay, Calcutta, Asam. 



Bengalee name : Dooilah-Kewtiah Nag. 



Brownish, with numerous faint yellow transverse stripes ; the 

 hood marked with a w'hite ring, not unlike the form of a mask, be- 

 hind which there are from three to five white rings ; — the anterior 

 part of the lower surface with alternate white and bluish- black rings ; 

 the posterior part iridescent-glaucous. 



A young specimen of this serpent lives at present in the Society's 

 Gardens in Regent's Park. The artificial temperature, 62° Fahr., 

 in which it is kept appears to agree very well with the serpent, 

 which in one respect offers a striking difference from the habits of 

 this genus when kejDt in captivity in India, for the keeper informs 

 me that it feeds occasionally upon living frogs and earth-worms, 

 and that it drinks milk; while those in Dr. Russell's and in my 

 own possession in India, when deprived of liberty invariably refused 

 to take any kind of food. 



Genus Elaps, Schneider. 



Elaps BUNGAROiDEsf. EL supcmc Hvidus, striis sagittalibus albis 

 cinctus ; infra albus alterne lividus. 

 Scuta abdominalia 237. 

 Scutella subcaudalia 46. 



Habitat. Chirra Punji. 



Black-blue above, with white arrow-shaped stripes ; beneath, 

 alternately white and black-blue. 



* Vide Proceedings of the Zoological Society, No. Ixvi, p. 73. 

 t From its resemblance to Bungarus cceruleus, Daudin. 



