380 COLUBRID. 
5. Naia tripudians. 
Seba, Thes.i. pl. xliv. fig. 1 (1734), and ii. pls. Lxxxix. figs, 1-4, xe, 
figs. 1 & 2, and xevii. figs. 1 & 2 (1735) ; Russell, Ind. Serp. i. 
ls. v. & vi. (1796), & ii. pls. i, & xxxvi. (1801). . 
Coluber naja, Linn. Mus. Ad, Frid. p. 30, pl. xxi. fig. 1 (1754), 
and 8. N. i. p. 382 (1767). 
Naja lutescens, Laur. Syn, Rept. p. 91 (1768) ; Cantor, Cat. Mail. 
pt. p. 117 (1847). 
—— fasciata, Laur. 1. c. 
—— brasiliensis, Law. 1. c. ; ; 
—— siamensis, Laur. 1. ¢. 
— maculata, Laur. 1. c. 
—— non naja, Laur. 1. ¢. E 92. 
Coluber czecus, Gmel, S. NV. i. p, 1104 (1788). 
rufus, G'mel. 1. c. p. 1105, 
—— peruvii, Lacép. Serp. ii. pp. 90 & 102 (1789). 
—— brasilie, Lacép. 1. c. pp. 90 & 104. 
Vipera naja, Daud. Rept. vi. p. 61, pl. Ixxi. (1803). 
Elaps fuscus, Merr. Tent. p. 144 (1820). 
Naja tripudians, Merr. 1. c. p. 147; Gray, Ill. Ind. Zool. ii. pls. 
Ixxvii.lxxix. (1834) ; Schleg. he Serp. ii. p. 466, pl. xvii. figs, 
1-8 (1837) ; Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 1293 (1854); Giinth. Rept. Brit. 
Ind. p. 338 (1864) ; Stoliezka, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, 
p. 211; Fayrer, Thanatoph. Ind. pls. ivi. (1874) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. 
45, pl. i. fig. 3 (1874) ; Pheob. Cat. Rept, Brit. Ind. p. 208 (1876) ; 
Blanf. Journ, As. Soc. Beng. 1, 1881, p. 241; Murray, Zool. Sind, 
p. 387 (1884); Tirant, t. Cochinch, p. 30 1888) ; Boettg. 
Zool. Jahrb. iii. 1888, p. 948; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, 
p. 35, and Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 391, fig. (1890); »v. Lidth de 
Jeude, Notes Leyd. Mus. xii. 1890, p. 26, and in M. Weber, Zool. 
Ergebn. i. p. 191 (1891); W. Selater, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. 1x. 
1891, p.246; Bouleng. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (6) xiv. es 34 5 84. 
—— sputatrix, Bove, Isis, 1827, p. 557; Bouleng. Faun, Ind., Rept. 
. B91, 
‘fomayele oxiana, Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 171 (1831), and Faun. 
Casp.-Caue, p. 104, pl. xx. (1841), 
Naja tripudians, vars. fasciata & nigra, Gray, Ill. Ind. Zool. 
—— kaouthia, Lesson, in Bélang. Voy. Ind. Or., Rept. p. 312, pl. ii. 
(1834). | 
—— larvata, Cantor, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1839, p. 32. 
—— atra, Cantor, Ann. § Mag. N. H. ix. 1842, p. 482. 
——~- tripudians, var. sondaica, Schley, Abbild. p. 139, pl. xlviii. figs. 
1-10 (1844), 
—— tripudians, part., Giinth. Cat, p, 228 (1858). 
— fot pee ee var. scopinucha, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad, 1859, 
okt oxiana, Strauch, Bull, Ac. St. Pétersb. xiii, 1868, p. 87, and 
Schl. Russ. R. p. 204 (1873); Nikolsky, Tr. St. Petersb. Soc. Nat. 
xvii. rei p- 405; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc, (2) v. 1889, p. 103, 
]. xi. fig. 2. 
AA 3 tripudians, var. unicolor, Peters, Preuss. Exped. O.-As., Zool. 
i, p. 382 (1876). 
Eye moderate, one third to one half the length of the snout, 
Rostral once and one fourth to once and a half as broad as deep, its 
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