Habitat: Sumatra (Stabat, Medan!, Bulo Telang in Langkat); 

 Siak!; Java (Gadok, Buitenzorg!, Depok, Cheribon!, Ambarawa, 

 Wonosobo, Kedu!, Salatiga!, Tengger Mts. 1200 M.); Borneo 

 (Baram river, Kuching, Singkavvang). Penang; Malay Penin- 

 sula; Siam; Burma; Assam; Bengal; S. India; S. China; 

 Indo China. 



Lives in dry places, in hollows of the ground ; in Java 

 often found in Sawahdikes. Feeds on small mammals, lizards 

 and snakes. The eggs, 8 in number, are incubated by the female. 



2. Bungarus candidus (L.). 



Coluber candidus, Linne, Mus. Ad. Frid. 1754, p. 33, pi. VII, fig. I. 

 Bungarus candidus, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 368 (s. syn.). 



Rostral more broad than deep, visible from above; inter- 

 nasals shorter than the praefrontals; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the tip of the snout, shorter than the parietals; 

 one prae- and two postoculars; temporals I + I or 1+2, 

 anterior much more long than deep; seven upper labials, third 



Fig. 91. Bungarus candidus (L.) X 3 /5- 



and fourth entering the eye; three (four) lower labials in 

 contact with the anterior chin-shields; latter as long as the 

 posterior. Scales in 15 (17) rows, vertebrals much enlarged; 

 ventrals 194 237; anal entire; subcaudals 37 56, single. 



Barred with dark brown and yellow, 27 34 (4260) dark 

 bars on body and tail, the first continuous with the dark 

 colour of the head, narrowed and rounded on the sides; the 

 broad yellow interspaces may be spotted with black; or dark 

 brown or bluish black above, with narrow, transverse, white 

 streaks or with small white spots. Lower surface white. Length 

 of head and body 920 mm.; tail 160 mm. 



