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and rarer than the Krait, or Gedi Paragoodoo, Bungarus mruleus 

 (see « Zoologist' for February, p. 74), which have the under parts 

 uniformly white, and the upper parts bluish or brownish black, 

 uniform, or with very narrow white streaks, not quite as broad 

 as a scale, and generally radiating from a white vertebral spot. 

 These three are amongst the most deadly of venomous snakes.* 



The Leaf Butterfly of India, Kallima inachis. 



5. The Leaf Butterflies of the genus Kallima are amongst the 

 most remarkable of the Nymphalma, from the curious resem- 

 blance of the under surface of the insect to a dead leaf. The 

 Indian species are nearly five inches in expanse of wing; the 



* By the way, why does the writer of the section on the Beptilia in this 

 work give the English name of the poisonous Sepedon hcemachates as " Ring 

 Hal's Slang " (sic.) ? Ring-hals Schlange is merely the Dutch for Ring- 

 necked Snake, bestowed on it by the Boers in South Africa. 



