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teats, and between them was an aperture through which it urinated, The 
animal appeared about 4 or 5 years old and was in good condition, I 
was informed that it had been sent in from a village to be preserved in the 
Dharmsala, an institution for starving cattle kept up by the Hindus of this 
A, NEWNHAM, Capt., F.z.s., 
Cantonment Magistrate. 
place. 
NAstraBaD, lst February, 1900, 
No, XV.—OCCURRENCE OF DIPSAS CYANEA IN BURMA. 
As far as we are aware, this snake has never been recorded from Burma, 
and our specimen was captured within eight miles of the heart of this city, 
and in close proximity to a large suburban town, Its rarity is also suggested 
from the fact that we have from time to time received a large number and 
many species of snakes from this particular locality, and also from all parts 
of the Province, including the Chin, Kachin, and Arrakan Hills, yet this is 
the sole specimen of this species that has so far reached us. We think the 
fact of its occurrence in Burma worthy of being placed on record. 
Though native testimony is rarely of any value in such matters, we may 
observe that a Karen shikari, known to one of us for some ten years, and 
who is very intelligent about jungle creatures, while looking through our col- 
lection, asserted that he recognized this snake, and mentioned that he had 
occasionally come across it in the jungle ; that it was a true tree snake, and 
lived on Geckos and Lizards. He further was able to recognize other speci- 
mens, which we happen to know come from his locality. 
A detailed description of our specimen is unnecessary, as with one or two 
exceptions it aecords with that so well given in Boulanger’s work. We, how- 
ever, note the following differences :— 
(1) Frontal—Equals distance to rostral only. 
(2) Ventrals—254. 
(3) Colour—Above, almost uniform light blue-clay, what is, we under- 
stand, termed Goblin-blue. A few scales are irregularly and 
thinly outlined blackish, 
Under parts, uniform buff on chin, throat, and anterior part of body, 
becoming mottled with blue later, the blue prevailing more and 
more on hinder part to become uniform beneath tail. 
(4) Apical pits—Capricious, both single and double on dorsals, continu- 
ed to supra-caudals, on the broadest of which were three or four 
pits. 
Length—Four feet, 'Tail—Thirteen inches. 
F. WALL, Capr., I. M.S., 
GEO. H, EVANS, A.V.D. 
RANGOON, January, 1900. 
