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BURMESE SNAKES. 
NOTES ON SPECIMENS INCLUDING 45 SPECIES OF OPHIDIAN 
FAUNA COLLECTED IN BURMA FROM ist JANUARY 
TO 30TH JUNE, 1900. 
By Carr, F. Wat, I.M.S., anp Vety,-Capr, Gro, H, Evans, A.V.D. 
(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 6th Feb., 1901.) 
We have confined our remarks to departures noted from Boulenger’s work, 
incorporating a few notes of general interest, 
(1) AsBLaBES PORPHYRACEUS.—Four specimens, from Taounggyi, Southern 
Shan States, east of the Salween River,and North Chin Hills.: Anterior chin 
shields—contact with four lower labials (4). Ventrals—217. Colour—all the 
adult specimens are of a pale brownish-lilac colour with from 14 to 17 large 
elliptical links thrown transversely across the body and ending close to the 
ventrals. These links are dark purplish-black, thinly outlined with dull 
white, and enclose large islets of the ground-colour, or a slightly modified 
shade of the ground-colour, They encompass from 6 to 8 scales vertebrally 
in the fore-body, where they are longer than the interspaces, but decrease in 
width posteriorly, where they become much narrower than the interspaces, 
About mid-body a pair of longitudinal purplish-black stripes with dull white 
edges appear, and as these pass backwards and become more distinct, the 
links gradually fade. The first link, which lies on the neck, throws forward 
a purplish-black streak to each eye, and a similar streak occupies the median 
line of the crown, 
Under parts dull white and immaculate. 
A young specimen, 93” in length, presents a very different aspect, The 
ground-coloar is dull yellowish-white, and the body is crossed by 15 dark pur- 
plish-black elliptical bars on body and 4 cn tail, all equally distinct and of uni- 
form colour throughout. These are picked out marginally with dull white, and 
the longitudinal stripes seen in the hind-body of adults are entirely wanting, 
Ingesta—a full-grown mouse (1). 
(2) AMBLYCEPHALUS ANDERSONII.—One specimen from Taounggyi, Southern 
Shan States. Length—143"; tail 13”. Inter-nasals—more than 31rd, less than 
3 prefrontals. Prafrontals—3-+ parietals, Ventrals—158, Subcaudals—a5. 
(3) BunGarts CERULEUS.—Three specimens, variety magnimaculata (2), 
from Monywa and Meiktila, U. B. Ina paper on snakes collected in Burma 
in 1899, contributed by us to the Bombay Natural History Society’s Journal, 
Vol. XIII, No, 2, we gavea description of what we suspected to bea new 
“ krait,’ and mentioned that since the advent of the current year we had 
obtained two more specimens from the Southern Shan States and Meiktila, 
Since then we have received particulars regarding one of these specimens from 
Mr, Thompson, to whom we were indebted for it. Mr, Thompson, it appears, 
found the specimen in Monywa, U. B. (the locality our first specimen came 
from) in 1893, and not in the Southern Shan States as reported by us, and was 
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