ON A NEW SNAKE OF THE GENUS OLIGOrOxN. 



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2. Description of a new Snake of the Genus Oligodon 

 from Upper Burma. By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., 

 F.Z.S. 



(Publislierl by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



[Received January 1, 1918 : Head February 5, 1918.] 



(Text-figure 1 .) 



Oligodon hamptoni. 



In 1905 I described a new Oligodon* occupying an isolated 

 position in the genus, of which two specimens had been obtained 



Text-fisfure 1. 



Oligodon hamptoni, sp. n. X 1^. 



--at Mogok, Upper Burma, by the late Mr. Herbert Hampton. 



* Oligodon lierherti Boulenger, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. xvi. 1995, p. 235, 

 pl.fii:!. 1. — The species has been rediscovered in Tonkin andnotic?das O.hei'herti, 

 vai'. eberhardti, by Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxv. 1910, p. 30. 



