BEPTILES or BRITISK BIRMA. 57 



a. Body 950 



TaU .... 1-25 = 10-75. 

 Colour yellowish grey, dark-spotted. Sides and belly white. 

 Colours distinctly separated. Captured in a marsh near Rangoon. 

 This species is very closely allied to I'T unicolor, but differs in 

 the eye being over the fifth labial, and in colouring. 



Cerbertjs, Cuvier, 



C. HHTNcnoPS, Schn. 



This is an extremely common snake in Lower Pegu, and may 

 be often observed fishing in the muddy estuary creeks, frequently 

 coming up on the mud bank, with a fish in its mouth, to devour 

 it with greater convenience at its leisure. Large specimens arc 

 rather scarce, none that I have ever seen attaining more than 

 thirty inches. 



Htpsirhina, Wagler. 



H. ENHTDEIS, Schn. 



a. Adult female. Body. . , . 14'75 



Tail .... 3 -25 =18 00. 



Colour above dark hair-brown, rather olive-tinted, and with a 

 bright blue iridescence. Down each side of the back a pale stripe 

 from the occipitals to the end of the tail, margined above and 

 below with a dark line. Sides and belly yellowish white. Down 

 each side a supraabdominal stripe of pale salmon-red. Scuta 

 and scutella dark-edged, giving rise to two lateral lines and one 

 median one below the tail. This snake contained six eggs in 

 March, and was taken near Bangoon. 



5. Adult female. Body. . . . 1850 



Tail .... 400=22-50. 

 Captured afc Tonghu. 

 This species is common in Pegu. 



H. PLUMBEA, Boie. 



Colour brown, with a clearly marked dark-edged yellow stripe 

 along either side. Belly pale grey, with a central dark cateniform 

 stripe, formed by a dark dot in the centre of each ventral plate. A 

 narrow dark line down each side, along the edge of the ventral 



