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of tail, its colour was black, with yellow bands on back and bright yellow on 

 belly ; it had a flat tail, something like an eel ; it had plate shields on the 

 head and two large fangs in the upper jaw ; these I removed and kept ; 

 it was evidently poisonous as the fangs were hollow. 



We made rather a bad job skinning it, as the butcher came along and 

 would help, which made too many cooks ; the surgeon also wanted the 

 heart to examine and in his hurry to get it, made several bad cuts in the 

 body, just where the heart wasn't, it not being in the place he thought it 

 would be. 



Its scales were very thin and during the process of skinning nearly all 

 came off. When skinned we nailed it on to a 10 feet board and dried it. 



I have the skin and fangs now, but very much regret not being able to 

 have kept the whole specimen for proper examination. 



F. H. S. STONE. 

 P. & O. S.S. Arcadia, 

 Bombay, \5th February 1913. 



Mr. Stone very kindly submitted the skin of the snake referred to above 

 for my examination. It measured 8 feet 9 inches, part of the head being 

 imperfect. With a certain degree of doubt I am of opinion that the 

 specimen is Brugman's sea-snake Distira brugmansi (Boie). The various 

 details I observe agree with those of that species. The costals two head 

 lengths from the head are -30, midbody 33, two head lengths before vent 

 32, imbricate. The ventrals are entire everywhere, and are about 366. 



1 think I see a single temporal on the left side, and two cuncate scales 

 after the 3rd infralabial. 



Dorsally it is olive-green, each scale being heavily bordered with black 

 to form a reticulate pattern (skin varnished). The subcosta is of a paler 

 hue, and the reticulation fainter, becoming entirely lost in the last five 

 rows. There are 53 bands on the body, black dorsally where they involve 



2 or 3 rows in the body length, fading at midcosta, and indistinct below 

 this. The intervals involve from 5 to 7 scales. There are intermediate 

 black spots in five consecutive spaces on the vertebral region, in the 

 middle of the body, in the last interval, and the first two intervals on the 

 tail. The bands are not connected ventrally. 



This is much the largest genuine sea-snake I have any knowledge of. 



F. WALL, C.M.Z.S., Major, i.bi.s. 

 Almora, 4ith June 1913. 



No. XXTV.— ON THE HABITS OF THE EOCK LIZARD 

 {AG AM A TUBERCULATA). 



As Boulenger in his " Reptilia and Batrachia," Fauna of British India, 

 makes no mention of the habits, etc., of this species, the following parti- 

 culars may be of some interest : — 



This Agama is the common Rock Lizard of these parts, and is usually 

 to be seen either solitary or in pairs. It lives entirely in holes, crevices 

 of rocks, and stone-walls, over which it crawls with great facility, Its 

 diet consists of ants, butterflies, and other such like insects. My friend, 

 Mr. J. Fairley, informs me that these lizards are very destructive to 

 plants, and that he has frequently seen them nipping the petals ofi" the 

 flowers in his garden. 



During the cold weather it hibernates, but a few are occasionally to be 

 seen basking in the sun on bright days. In the summer months it 



