70 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {March, 1906. 
head with the attenuated and cylindrical neck is specially adapted 
to penetrate into the crevices and crannies among the rocks in 
search of prey. It may also be urged that the modification serves 
the purpose of an offensive organ also, inasmuch as the pre 
With regard to coloration, the young ones are, as 
found gracefully adorned with bright bands and streaks, while as 
ngement and number of 
very varia In almost all the species described above, the 
number of scales vary from those given by Mr. Boulenger in his 
descriptions. 
Z 
hough one and all the species are poisonous, the poison fangs 
are not so very well developed as in terrestrial snakes. They are 
small and not markedly differentiated from the maxillary teeth be- 
chi them. In one species, however, viz., Enhydrina valakadien, 
fangs being small, the puncture cansed by the bite must be 
1 L. Rogers in Proc. Ro ; s 
305; Sir Thomas » Roy. Soc. Ixxi. (1903), p. 481 and Ixxii. (1903): 
(i904) Soda es Fraser and R. H, Elliot, in Phit Trans. Roy. Soc, B. 197, 
904). p. 240. 
"Basset Smith, M.R.C.S., R.N. 
