1899.] EEPTILES OP THE MALAY PENIXSTJIiA AND SIAM. 689 



Platurus laticauclaius, Blgr. Fauna Ind., Eept. p. 395 (head 

 fig. p. 394) ; Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 307. 



The British Museum contains a specimen from Chantaboon, 

 Siam. 



Hah. Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Siam, Loo Choo Islands, New 

 Guinea, and the Western South Pacific (Fiji, New Hebrides, 

 Australia, and Tasmania). 



200. Platurus colubbinus (Schn.). 



Laticauda scutata, Cantor, p. 12.5. 



Platurus colubrinus, Blgr, Cat. Snakes, p. 308 (skull fig. p. 307). 



Recorded from Penang and Singapore ; Cantor obtained only 

 three specimens in four years, so it is apparently not numerous. 



Hah. Bay of Bengal, Engaiio, Straits oP Malacca, Malay 

 Archipelago, and the Western South Pacific (Fiji, New Hebrides, 

 Australia, and New Zealand). 



Subfamily Blapin^. 



201. BuNGAEUS FASCiATUS (Schn.). 



Bungarus fasdatus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 366. 



Localities. This fine snake, coloured yellow and black in alternate 

 rings, is popularly confounded with the harmless Dijjsadomorplms 

 dendrophilus, so may not be as numerous in the Malay countries 

 as some suppose ; it is known to occur in the following localities : — 

 Penang (Cantor and Stoliezka), Province VVellesby (Cantor and Van 

 Sommeren coll.), Kuala Lumpor (Selangor Museum), Malacca 

 (Hanitsch, Eep. Kaffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 10), Johore 

 (Kelsall, vide post.), and Singapore (Blanford). Two specimens 

 supposed to have been caught in Bangkok are in the Siamese 

 Museum ; and the British Museum Catalogue mentions two 

 specimens from Siam, presented by Sir E,. Schomburgk and W. H. 

 Newman, Esq. 



H. J. Kelsall, J. S. B. Eoyal Asiatic Soc. no. 26, 1894, p. 12, 

 when on the Batu Pahat Sembrong in Johore, " saw a fine 

 specimen of the banded viper {Bungarus fasciatus) in a hole in the 

 bank. On an attempt being made to kill it, it took to the water 

 and by diving escaped." 



Size. A specimen caught in Kuala Lumpor, Selangor, measured 

 in total length 1270 mm. (or 4 feet 2 inches). 



Hah. India, Assam, Burma, Southern China, Siam, Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, Java. 



202. BUNGAEUS OAHDIDUS (L.). 



Bungarus ceeruleus, Blgr. Fauna Ind., Eept. p. 388. 

 Bunc/arus candidus, Cantor, p. 113; Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. 

 p. 368 "(skull fig. p. 365). 



Localities. The Krait, supposed to be one of the most deadly of 



