MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



401 



Elachistodon westermanni (Slightly enlarg'ed). 



Supraoculars. — Length about three-fourths the frontal, breadth less than 

 half the frontal along a line connecting the centres of the eyes. Nasals. — 

 Divided in contact with the 1st and 2nd supralabials, a dimple in the 

 posterior shields. Loreal. — ^In contact with the eye. Prcsocular . — One small 

 above the loreal. Fostoculars. — Two. Terii'porals. — Two anterior, the lower 

 touching the oth, 6th and 7th supralabials. Supralabials. — 7th, the 3rd and 

 4th touching the eye, 7th much longest. Infralabials — seven, very narrow ; 

 the oth, 6th and 7th, touching the posterior sublinguals. Sublinguals — Tm^o 

 large and broad pairs, with no mental groove separating them. Eye mode- 

 rate with vertically eliptic pupil, jffeofi rather elongate. Body compressed. 

 Colour — Black above, with a conspicuous light-brown vertebral stripe from 

 the neck to tail tip, and a few short variegations of the same colour costally. 

 Head light brown with a large black sagittate mark, a black stripe passes 

 through the lore to well behind the eye. Chin, throat and belly uniform, 

 yellowish with some black basally on each side of the ventrals. No maxil- 

 lary teeth, but one (two ?) large grooved fangs at the posterior limit. 

 Four (?) small palatine teeth with a long edentular internal before and 

 behind. No (?) pherygoid teeth. 



The specimen in the Indian Museum agrees except Costals, two heads- 

 lengths behind head 19. The two steps from 19 to 17 and from 17 to lo 

 are intermixed but the fusion of rows is as above. Ventrals 203, Subccmdals 

 63. Supralabials 6 on the right side. 



In the type specimen the costal rows are 19 at a point two headslengths 

 behind the head. The ventrals are 217 and subcaudals 59 (Gunther). 



Almoka, Mh June 1913. 



F, WALL, Major, i.m.s., c.m.z.s. 



No. XXII.— ON THE COMMON {BUNGARUS CJERVLEUS) AND 

 SIND KRAITS {BUNGARUS SIN D ANUS.) 



Among other specially interesting specimens sent to me by our Society 

 recently are two kraits which it seems to me justifj^ the conclusion that 

 Buncjc'.rus sindanus cannot in future be considered a species apart from 

 Bungarus cceruleus. Specimen No. 1 was obtained by Captaiii F. L. Hughes 

 at Jhelum. 



