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touching the eye on one side in one specimen, and occasioned by a 
confluence between the first and second labials. Anterior chin- 
shields in contact with four infralabials on both sides in three out 
of four specimens examined. 
87. Nara tripupIANs. Southern Asia from Transcaspia to 
China, Hainan, Hongkong (Hallow., Steindach., City Hall Mus.), 
Formosa, Chusan, Philippines. —In the Siccawei Museum I saw 
seven specimens, and in the Shanghai Museum three. There are 
fifteen in the City Hall Museum, of which eleven are from Hong- 
kong, two from Hainan, and two from China. Of the ten 
specimens I examined three have scales in twenty-one rows in 
the middle of the body, and three in nineteen. In the remainder 
IT have failed to record the number. Nine have more or less 
distinct (some very well defined) buff or pale yellowish cross-bands 
dorsally. These numbered from 13-21 on the body, and 5-8 on the 
tail. They involve one or two rows of scales along the length of 
the snake, and are most conspicuous in the posterior third or so 
of the body. The intervals involve from ten to twelve scales, and 
are sometimes separated from cross-bars by a blackish line. Hood 
marked with modified black ocellus. Belly yellow, with one or two 
plumbeous bands ventrally, or mottled toa variable extent with 
black. In one specimen the whole belly uniform black. One 
specimen is evidently a Sputatrix. This I found in the Siceawei 
Collection. Scales over hood 21, mid-body 17. Ventrals 177. 
Subcaudals 45. No hood-marks. Nearly uniform black dorsally, 
with no suspicion of cross-bars. One very broad plumbeous ventral 
band involves from the 9th to the 47th shield, and then breaks up 
into a mottling and disappears. 
88. NAIA BuNGARUS. Southern Asia from India to 8. China, 
Hongkong (City Hall Mus.), Philippines.—A newly-hatched ex- 
ample is preserved in the City Hall Museum, habitat Hongkong. 
I found the head of a large specimen in the Shanghai Museum ; 
and whilst I was in Hongkong a gentleman encountered one on 
the mainland opposite, which he killed and brought home. I 
examined and identified it, and estimated it at betwe een seven and 
eight feet in length. 
89. CALLOPHIS MACCLELLANDI. Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Burma, 
S. China, Formosa. 
AMBLYCEPHALIDSE. 
90. AMBLYCEPHALUS MOELLENDORFFII. T'enasserim, Siam, Cochin 
China, 8. China, Hongkong, Hainan.—This is a common snake 
in the island of Hongkong. I collected ten myself, all of which 
were found in low jungle on the slopes of the Peak. I saw three 
specimens in the City Hall Museum. Internasals form a suture 
with the loreal in all specimens. Postoculars and suboculars : 
usually one long semilunar shield extends from the supraoculars 
behind, skirting the eye to a point about halfway up its anterior 
aspect. Sometimes this scale is divided so as to form a small 
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