826 EEPTILIA. 



yellow ground. A black spot on the keel of eaeh ventral. This type of coloration 

 agrees with snakes from the Khasia hills and Siam. 



The foregoing specimen was captured at Mandalay in Upper Burma. 



DEYIOPHIDiE. 

 Genus Passe hit a, Gray. 

 Passerita mycteeizans, Linn. 



Coluber mycterizans, Linn., Mus. AdolpL. Frid., 1754, p. 28; Bonnat, OpMol. Eneycl. Method., 



1784, pi. XXX, fig. 62; Eussell, Ind. Serp., vol. ii, 1801, pis. xii and xiii; Daud. Kept., 1803, 



vol. vii, p. 9, pi. Ixxx, fig. 1. 

 Dryinus nasutus, Merr. Tentam, 1820, p. 136 (nee Bell) ; Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. Gen., 1854, vol. vii, 



p. 809. 

 Bryinus oxyrliynchus, Bell, Zool. Joum., 1821, p. 325. 

 I'asserita mycterizans , Gray, Ann. Phil., 1825, vol. x, p. 208; Giinth,, Cat. Col. Sn., 1858, p. 160 ; 



id., Rapt., B. Ind., 1864, p. 305 ; Proe. Zool. Soc., 1869, p. 502 ; Steind., Reise Novara, 1867, 



p. 73 ; Theobald, Joum. Linn. Soc., 1868, vol. x, p. 53 ; Jan & Sord., Iconogr. G^n. Ophid. 



1869, No. 32, pi. v; Blanf., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, 1870, p. 373; Theobald, Descr. Cat. 



Rept., Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 193; Ferguson, Rept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 21. 

 Dryoplis nasutus, Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 520 ; Gue'rin, Iconogr. Rept. Cuv. Reg. An., 1830, p. 22, fig. 



2 ; Jan & Sord., Iconogr. Gen. Oph., No. xxxii, pi. v, fig. 2. 

 Tragops nasutus , Wagler, Icon. Amphib., 1830, p. 184. 

 Dryiophis nasuta, Schleg., Phys. Serp., 1837, pi. x, fig. 1. 

 Herpetotragus nasutus, Fitz., Syst. Rept., 1843, p. 27. 



This snake appears to be sparingly but generally distributed over Burma. 

 Theobald has recorded it from Pegu, Prome, Thayetmyo and Tonghu, and I have 

 now to extend its distribution to Bham6. I did not meet with it in the high, 

 region to the east of the last-mentioned locality. 



LYCODONTID^. 



Genus LycoDON, D. & B. 



Lycodon atjlicus, Linn. 



Russel, Ind. Serp., vol. ii, 1801, p. 42, pi. xxxix, var. A. 



Coluber aulicus, Linn., Mus. Adolph. Frid., .1754, vol. i, p. 29, pi. xii, fig. 2; id,, Syst, Nat., 12th 

 ed., 1766, vol. i, p. 381. 



Lycodon aulicus, Boie, Isis, 1826, vol. xix, p. 981; Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, pt. 2, 

 1847, p. 915; Jerd., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxii, 1853, p. 528; Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. 

 Gen., vol. vii, 1854, p. 369; Gunth., Cat. Col. Sn., 1858, p. ^01; Rept. B. Ind., 1864, 

 p. 316; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxix, 1860, p. 110; Steind., Reise Novara, 1867, 

 p. 74; StoL, Journ. As, Soc, Bengal, 1870, pp. 137, 141, 201; id., op. cit., 1873, pp. 115, 

 162; Jan & Sord., Icon. Gen. Oph., No, xxxvi, 1870, pi. iv, fig. 1; Theobald, Descr. Cat. 

 Rept., Brit. Ind., 1876, p. 199; Ferguson, Rept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 21. 



Lycodon hebe, Schleg., Phys. Serp., 1837, vol. ii, p. 106, pi. iv, figs. 1-3 (nee C. hebe, Daud.) 



Tytleria hypsirUnoides, Theob., Journ. As, Soc, Bengal, vol, xxxvii, 1868, ex. No,, p, 66; Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, 1868, vol, x, p, 49, 



