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22. Additions to the Collection of Oriental Snakes in the Indian 
Museum.—Part 2.—Specimens from the Andamans and Nico- 
bars—By Nenson Annanpate, B.A., D.Sc., Deputy Superin- 
tendent of the Indian Musewm. 
All the snakes recorded or described in this communication are 
fromthe Andamans or the Nicobars. With one exception, they have 
been collected and presented to the Museum either by Major A. R. 
Anderson, I.M.S., or by Mr. C. G. Rogers. The one exception is 
the type of a new Sea-Snake, which was taken by the Indian 
Marine Survey. Mr. G. A. Boulenger has kindly examined several 
of the other specimens. [am much indebted to Major Anderson 
for several letters on the snakes of the islands. I have added a 
revised list of the species known to occur in the two archipelagoes 
or represented from them in the Indian Museum, having re-examined 
the specimens recorded by Mr. W. L. Sclater in all cases in which 
there was any doubt. 
TYPHLOPID Ai. 
TYPHLOPS BRAMINUS (Daud,) 
This is evidently the common species in the Andamans, or at 
any rate in the neighbourhood of Port Blair. Major Anderson has 
lately sent us twenty-four very dark specimens from that station. 
The type of T. andamanensis still remains unique, if it is in 
existence. I have notbeen able tu trace its history. The Museum 
does not possess examples of J. oatesvi, described from the Cocos 
group. 
COLUBRID 2. 
Lycopon avuticus (Linn. ) 
We have lately received several specimens of this common 
Indian species both from the Andamans and the Nicobars. One 
from the Nicobars belongs to var. EH of Boulenger’s ‘“ Catalogue ; ” 
those from the Andamans to var. C, a common form in Ceylon. 
OLIGopDON woopmasont (Scel.) 
Simotes woodmasoni, Sclater, J.A.8.B., (2) LX, p. 235; List. 
Snakes, p. 24. 
A young specimen, lately received from Major Anderson, has 
been submitted to Mr. Boulenger, who regards it as belonging to 
the genus Oligodon. I have compared it with Mr. Sclater’s types, 
with which it is identical. Mr. Boulenger notes that it is nearly 
related to O. trilineatus, a Malayan species, 
COLUBER MELANURUS, Schleg. 
A specimen from the Andamans has the entire dorsal surface 
of the head and body of an almost uniform dark plumbaceous 
