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before the anus). There is one postocular on both sides in one example, 

 one on one side in another. The temporal is single on both sides in one 

 specimen, and on one side in two specimens. The body has complete 

 black bands expanding into rhombs dorsally, and not connected ventrally. 

 Enhydrina valakadyn (Boie). 

 Two specimens from Soumiana (Las Bela) are quite typical. 



Bungarus cceruleus (Schneider). 

 One typical example from Sharigh, which, as far as I am aware, extends 

 the habitat of this species. The ventrals are 212 but the tail being im- 

 perfect the subcaudals cannot be counted. 



Bungarus sindanus (Boulenger). 



Two specimens from Fort Sandeman. The ventrals are 201 and 214, 



and the subcaudals 48 in both. I can find no previous mention of this 



species outside Sind. 



The ventrals in these Baluchistan specimens are much lower than the 

 range previously noted by me in my " Poisonous terrestrial snakes of oui 

 British Indian Dominions." Within the same week that I examined thost 

 specimens I received another from Fort Sandeman through the Secretary 

 of the Bombay Natural History Society, and also details of four others killec 

 this year in the same locality by Major C. H. Ward, of the 4th Rajputs. 

 On revising my previous notes with these additional specimens I find the 

 details noted by me in the above work require some modification. I find 

 for instance that in all the specimens in which I have measured the 

 relative breadth and length of the vertebrals they are as broad or broader 

 than long, not longer than broad, as shown in the plate that accompanies 

 Boulenger's description of one of the type specimens (Bombay Natural 

 History Jour., Vol. XI, p. 73). Again I have stated that some of the 

 terminal subcaudals are divided, and I find that this is very unusual ; in fact, 

 is only the case in one of the many specimens I have now seen. 



The examination" of these recently acquired specimens has broken 

 down many of the distinguishing characters, which at first appeared to 

 differentiate walli from sindanus, but in spite of this I still think that the 

 two species are distinct. In walli the body is very distinctly compressed, 

 but I have never seen any tendency towards compression in sindanus. 

 Further the markings in walli are distinct, and it appears to be a larger 

 snake than sindanus. The record of 14 specimens of walli I have examined 

 is 5 feet 4§ inches, whilst that for the 17 specimens of sindanus referred to 

 below is 4 feet 3 inches. Mr. Boulenger's quotation from Mr. Mountford 

 that sindanus commonly reaches 6 feet is not borne out by these speci- 

 mens, the details of which I append. The specimens recorded by 

 Mr. Cholmondeley in this Journal (Vol. XVIII, p. 921), and which I 

 considered walli {vide Vol. XIX, p. 268) must in the light of our increased 

 knowledge I think be acknowledged to be sindanus. I await specimens of 



