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Whree of these were dug out of the same hole, where one had been 
“seen to take refuge on the 8th July, Two of them were males, 
and one a female with her ovarian follicles enlarged to a length of 
“about 3", 
One, containing twelve eggs with no trace of embryo, was killed on the 5th 
August. 
26, Naia tripudians (binocellus):—One specimen obtained in Myaungm- 
tyas ole 
The Cobra is not nearly such a common snake here (Rangoon) as we have 
known it in India, especially in the south ; and most of the specimens we get 
are of the monocellate variety: still in certain localities, such as on the 
‘Sittang plains, cobras are extremely common, one of us having on two or 
three occasions, killed as many as five in a day. 
27. Psammodynastes pulverulentus:—One specimen, obtained from Wum- 
bezat, L. B. * 
Temporals—2 + 4Rand L. 
28. Python molurus:—One specimen, obtained from Pyinbongyi, L, B, * 
Antoculars—3 L, 
Venitrals—269, 
Lower labials—-19 R. 20 L. 
We have already published notes concerning this species, in the Society’s 
Journal, on page 190 (No. 1) of this Volume (XIII). 
29. Simotes cruentatus:—ten specimens, Rangoon, and districts, L. B. * 
Frontal—greater than distance to end of snout, (6). 
Anterior chin shields—in contact with five labials, (5). 
Ventrals—171, 
Subcaudals—27 (1) ; less than 30 (6). ‘ 
Colour—Olive-brown above, with four dark linear longitudinal lines. The 
two median are separated by three rows of scales, and extend to end of tail. 
The lateral run two and a half rows above the ventrals, and end at the vent. 
In a well-marked specimen, there is a dark transverse band before the eyes 
continued below them as a subocular streak, a dark collar incomplete below, 
which throws forward a median process to the frontal and a lateral obliquely 
to the parietals, In many specimens these marks are indistinct, or modified 
to ‘a mottling. Belly canary-yellow in life, with large black squarish 
spots often confluent behind, where they are more numerous. A post- 
anal black mark 3-4 subcaudals wide, and often another black band at or 
near tip, these two sometimes connected laterally by a black line ; subcaudals 
otherwise yew-berry crimson, or sealing-wax red. Anal often tinged the same 
colour, 
_ On two occasions we have been present when this snake was flushed, and 
the degree of “animus” it displayed in trying to avoid capture was 
remarkable, and for so small a snake almost laughable. One, however, in 
* Lower Burma. 
