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This species has never been recorded in the Central Provinces before, 

 and in extending its habitat it also increases our list of poisonous snakes. 



It is a very small snake and remarkably slender, attaining a length of 

 only about 13 inches. There is a great superficial resemblance dorsally 

 between this and another harmless species also found here, which I cannot 

 help noticing, the snake in question being Polyodontopliis subpunctatus. 

 Both are roughly speaking pale brown snakes with black heads ; but the 

 Callophis has, in addition, two black bands across the tail. Upset the snakes 

 and the differences are more clearly visible, for while the underparts of the 

 PolyodontopMs are whitish or yellowish, those of the CallopJiis are bright 

 coral red, or at all events, red near the vent. 



My specimen measured 9' 7 inches, of which the tail accounted for 

 I'l inch. The ventrals and subcaudals were 249+31, the latter in pairs. 

 The anal divided. One prse and two postoculars. One temporal, 6 supra- 

 labials, the 3rd and the 4th entering the eye ; 4 infralabials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shield. Costals in 13 rows. 



E. A. D'ABREU, f.z.s. 

 The Museum, Nagpuk, 

 September 8t7i, 1913. 



No. XXX.— BANDED KRAIT (BUNGARUS FASCIATUS) 

 IN OUDH. 



If my memory serves me, I think that Major Wall in his interesting 

 papers on the Common Snakes of India, says that the Banded Krait 

 {^Bunyarus fasciatus) had not been recorded from Oudh. It will interest him 

 to know that a fine specimen was lately obtained by Mr. R. H. L. Clarke, 

 I.C.S., in the Western part of the Bahraich district, and that a few years 

 ago, I killed one, and saw two others on the banks of the Mahun river in 

 the Kheri district. 



S. J. MARTIN. 

 GoNDA, Itli July 1913. 



No. XXXI.— BANDED KRAIT {BUNGARUS FASCIATUS) IN 

 HYDERABAD STATE. 



A short time ago Mr. A. C. Hankin, C.I.E., Inspector General of the 

 Nizam's Police, was in Bombay, and told us that Mr. G. E. C. Wakefield 

 had killed a Banded Krait {Bunyarus fasciatus) in Hyderabad State at 

 Christmas time last year. On writing to Mr. Wakefield, he kindly sent 

 the skin and gave us further particulars as follows : — " You are interested 

 in the snake I shot last Xmas at Narsampett, 24 miles N.-E. of Warangal. 

 I shot him at night in a running stream, a light on the bank had apparently 

 attracted him and appeared to hold him there entwined round a bush 

 growing in the running water. By lamp light that night his colour 

 appeared to be black and white, but in day light next morning he was 

 black and pale yellow. But to me, interested as I am in snakes, his 

 most interesting feature was this triangular formation." 



The skin which is that of an undoubted Banded Krait measures 7'-3f" 

 (362 mm.), but having been cured has been considerably stretched and 

 probably did not measure when alive much more than 6'-9". Major Wall 

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