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The melanic colour of the male has not been brought about by sexual 
selection on the part of the female. 
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(From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.) 
No, V.—NOTES ON TWO SPECIMENS OF LYCODON FASCIATUS, 
We have lately been fortunate in obtaining two specimens of Lycodon 
fasciatus, a snake hitherto rarely met with, since Boulenger in his work 
mentions that it has only been twice recorded, 
The first we received was obtained at Haka, in the Lower Chindwin Hills 
in this Province at an altitude of about 6,700 feet. The second was one 
ofa lot collected in the Southern Shan States at an altitude of from 3,000 to 
7,000 feet. 
- The first was badly mutilated about the head, but not so much as to defeat 
a fairly accurate investigation being made, The second was an abnormal 
specimen in that the upper preocular (the preocular of Boulenger) was 
absent, and the prefrontals thus entered the eyes on both sides. 
They both accord well with the description given in Boulenger’s text except 
in a few details which we enumerate :— 
No.1, Length—24” ; tail—4}”. Anterior chins subequal to posterior, 
Ventrals—210. Subcaudals? tail docked, 69 counted. 
No.2. Upper prxocular—absent. Anterior chins subequal to posterior, 
Ventrals—209. Subcaudils—83. Colour is the same in both, 
and as follows :— 
The snake is girt with siesta black and yellow bands in its entire length 
completely encircling its girth, with the exception of the first yellow one 
which fails to meet on the nape. These bands are well defined, and remark- 
able in the jaggedness of their outlines, Anteriorly the black bands involve 
six to eight scales in the length of the snake, and decreased to involve three to 
