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the last three of which are divided, and 22 yellow bands on the body. 

 There are no black patches within the yellow bands ventrally, how- 

 ever. As these are young snakes, the enlarged tip at the end of the 

 tail is not yet in evidence. 



[During my five years' residence in Siam I have rarely seen this 

 species. I have on two or three occasions seen the snake crossing 

 city roads, and in 1928 I noticed two that had been killed by auto- 

 mobiles on roads near my house. — H. M. S.] 



BUNGARUS FLAVICEPS Reinhardt 



U.S.N.M. 



70361 (S2145) Bang Yai Jang, southwest of Aug. 15, 1925. 



Rajaburi. 



This snake, the second one of its kind to be taken in Siam, is a large 

 one, and in its stomach there are the remains of an exceedingly large 

 bamboo snake, Trimeresurus gramineus. This species of krait has 

 been reported once from Nakon Sritamarat by Dr. Malcolm Smith in 

 The Poisonous Land Snakes of Siam.^^ In this specimen there are 13 

 scale rows around the body, 222 ventrals, and 52 subcaudals, the first 

 18 of which are single, the remainder double. The head and tail are 

 orange red, the body scales above are black, the interstitial skin 

 showing pale pink between them in this distended specimen. The 

 black color clouds the extreme ends of the ventral plates, which are 

 otherwise a deep buff color (faded by alcohol). There is no lateral 

 light streak on the outer row^s of scales, nor is there any vertebral 

 light stripe. 



NAJA HANNAH (Cantor) 



U.S.N.M. Ventrals Caudals 



72726 (S2909) - _ Pak Jong Dec. 19, 1926_.. 239 90 (20 single + 70 



double) . 



NAJA NAJA (Linnaeus) 



[I have sent to the museum no specimens of cobra, as I have very 

 rarely come across the species. It occurs within the city limits of 

 Bangkok, and occasionally I hear of cobras being killed about or in 

 the houses of my friends. — H. M. S.j 



CALLIOPHIS MACULICEPS (Giinther) 



U.S.N.M. 



70331(82153) Nong Kohr Sept. 24, 1925. 



A single specimen of this small snake shows an unusually low ventral 

 count of 193; the lowest count by Boulenger is 205 and the lowest 

 given by Glydenstolpe is 198. The subcaudals number 21; there are 

 7 labials, one prae- and two postoculars and a single large temporal 

 scale. The coloration agrees with Boulenger's description, excepting 

 that the tail beneath has a few irregular black patches, in addition 

 to the two black rings characteristic of the species . 



13 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, no. 1, 1923, p. 61. 



