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about in an inert manner, more like useless appendages than organs 

 with any function. They are not sensitive, and may be examined freely 

 without any resentment on the part of their owner. Their use is still 

 unlcnown. The p]iotograj:)h of the head shows them very well, 



I have never known this snake to bite when handled, or make 

 any attempt to escape. It feeds, 1 believe, entirely upon fish. Its 

 Siamese name, " ngu kradang", is given to it on account of the stiff, 

 nnl:)ending attitude which it assumes when caught. I have been in- 

 formed by a high authority in the language that the wo'-d " kradang " 

 cainiot properly be used in this sense ; it is, however, the explanation 

 conmionly given by the countrj' people, though one would certainly 

 liave expected, knowing their aptitude for picking out salient features, 

 that the)' would have chosen the " tentacles" on this occasion. 



Lewjili. 770 mu). 



Color (in life). Above, reddish brown, with a dark, irregu- 

 lar, longitudinal stripe on either side of the vertebral line, and a 

 broad.er lateral one commencing at the nose and passing through 

 the eye. Below, pale yellowish, with very similar stripes, the two me- 

 dian of which b )rder the ventral s.^ales. A.nteriorl\', some dark dorsal 

 cross-bars, and a series of white, dark-edged, ventral spots. 



Bidrihation. Siani and Indo-China. 



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