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Eastern Bengal, less common in Bengal and Orissa, and not rare, 

 I believe, in the Central Provinces.* 



A specimen of Colonel Beddome's collecting said to be from the 

 Anamallays is now in the British Museum, but I do not credit the 

 locality, and have shown good cause to doubt the accuracy of this 

 record, f It is an inhabitant of the Plains, and rarely ascends to 

 any Hills, and then probably not above 3,000 feet. Thus in the 

 Eastern Himalayas in 1908, out of 778 snakes collected between 

 500 and 7,500 feet, no specimen came to hand. In 1909 Mr. 

 Wright of Tindharia sent me a single specimen collected some- 

 where between 500 and 2,800 feet, but he had forgotten the 

 exact locality. In the Khasi Hills, Assam, out of 264 snakes 

 collected in Shillong (4,900 feet) I got no banded krait, but saw a 

 dead one on the road somewhere near Nongpho (1,900 feet) which 

 I guessed might have been about 3,000 feet elevation. Mr. Hamp- 

 ton writing from Mogok. Ruby Mines (3,800 feet), though an 

 industrious collector of snakes for many years, had, he told me, 

 never seen this snake there. 



Lepidosis — Rostral. — Touches shields, the rostronasal sutures 

 longer than the rostro-internasal, and the latter about twice the 

 length of the rostro-labial. Intemasah — Two, the suture between 

 them equal to or rather less than that between the prefrontal 

 fellows, and about two-thirds the internaso-prgefrontal. Proefrou- 

 tals — Two, the suture between them rather greater than the 

 prcefronto-frontal : in contact with internasal, postnasal, prseocu- 



* A member of our Society addressed the Secretary about February last year 

 asking if he could name a snake which he had killed in Chanda, and he described 

 as being' completely banded with broad belts of yellow and black, and with a 

 finder- like tail. I mislaid the letter which was handed to me, and cannot quote the 

 writer's name, Mr. E. H. Young- wrote to me last year, and told me he had killed 

 a banded krait in the Sal forest, 40 miles North of Bilaspur- Two Officers told me 

 of a banded krait killed at Raipur some years ago. When on Famine duty in 1 897. 

 a friend told me of a yellow and black banded snake he had killed in his verandah 

 the night before near Bilaspur, which I had no doubt at the time was a banded 

 krait. Colonel Bannerman tells me he has known it from Raipur and Sani- 

 balpur. 



t Terr, snakes, Brit. Ind. Dom. 1908, p. 17. 



