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the buno-alow by the help of three coolies. The marks of the fangs 

 were distinct. I was in pain and feverish all nighty and next morning 

 a large cupfnll of blood and matter came away. After two days 1 

 could put my foot to the ground, but it was several days before I could 

 wear anything but a slipper. About a year after, the same place 

 swelled up and there was pain and discharge- for a few days. I saw 

 the snake as it went away, a small green one. The marks of the 

 fangs became very distinct as the swelling stretched the skin." 



J met a hill man myself on one occasion, having the lower part of 

 the right arm withered and useless, and he told me it was the result 

 of a bite from this snake. As a rule this snake is only found at 

 considerable elevations. But one was taken alive at the foot of 

 the hills and lived in Trevandrum for some time. 



Trimeresurus maerolepis. — Not uncommon on the hills from about 

 two thousand feet elevation. 



Since this paper was read before the Society, I have had another 

 instance of one snake swallowing another brought to my notice but the 

 affair ended unusually. 



Mr. Ingleby writes : " Some frogs had been put in the glass case 

 containing two rat-snakes, and v/hile I was selecting from the rest, one 

 of the snakes seized a fair-sized frog and apparently the other one 

 must have got hold about the same time. A visitor shouted to me that 

 one snake was swallowing the other, and just as I got to the cage the 

 head of the one was just disappearing down the throat of the other. In 

 about ten minutes' time, and with some difficulty, about one-third had 

 disappeared, and then the snake rested, after a while he commenced 

 again, and more than half had gone when a tremendous struggle took 

 place ; the snake inside appeared to twist himself round inside the 

 other one ; any way after a time the swallowing snake began to dis- 

 gorge, first one or two inches, then he would stop and take it all in 

 again, but finally the other got his tail around the water pot in the 

 case and got some 'beverage, and before long out he came, frog and all 

 both alive." 



