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party of Karens passed, and tlie Python bit tlic print of the foot 

 of one of the party, whilst the crow accompanied the party home 

 to note the result. In a short time he returned, and told the 

 Pytlion that, so far from liia bite having any ill effect, he found 

 the whole village had devoted itself to feasting and drinlciug, and 

 that the day had been passed in merriment (such being the Karen 

 fashion on a death or burial), whereon the Python, in a rage, volun- 

 tarily spat up all his venom, and his descendants have since 

 remained harmless. (Eev. P. Mason.) :•.;' 



Pamily TOETEICIDiE. 

 Oylikdropuis, Waaler. 

 0. ETJEUS, Laur. 



a. Adult. Body "... 24-50 



Tail .... 6-50 =31 -00. Thaiet-mio. 

 This species is not plentiful, but occurs thpughout Pegu and 

 Teuasserim. 



Pamily CALAMAEIDiE. 

 Calamama, Boie. 



C. siAMENSis, Giinther*. 



a. Half-grown. Body .... 4-35 



Tail .... 0-40=4-75. 



No azygos shield in contact with the anterior chin-shields. 

 Colour fleshy-grey, with eleven very narrow longitudinal black 

 lines down the back ; the vertebral and alternate lines rather 

 thicker than the rest. Head dark, with a yellow collar behind, 

 followed by a second black-edged yellow collar, after a dark inter- 

 space less than the length of the head. Occipitals yellow, with 

 a blaclc spot. Tail minutely yellow-tipped, with two broad band- 

 like yellow blotches on one side and three on the other. Beneath 

 white ; yellowish on chin. 



Captured near Hlain, under a log. 



b. No azygos shield in contact with the anterior chin-shields. 

 Colour above uniform dark-brown, with a blue iridescence. A 

 dark vertebral line and faint traces of other longitudinal lines 

 not well made out, owing to the dark ground-colour. A con- 

 spicuous dark median line beneath the tail, but no spots. An 



* I defer to Dr. Giinther's judgment as regards these specimens, which I had 

 myself assigned to C. qiiadrima(yidata, D. ^ B, 



