828 ' EEPTILIA. 



ELAPID^. 



Genus Naja, Laur. 



Naja tripudians, Merr. 



Naja tripudians, Merr. Tentam. Syst. Amph, 1820, p. 147. 



Both specimens are uniform brownish above, yellow beneath, with three broad 

 blackish bands across the neck and forepart of the abdomen of the one, and two 

 across the neck of the other. The under surface of the former is blotched here and 

 there with brown, that of the latter is immaculate yellow. The inferior anterior 

 temporal rests on the 5th and 6th labials. 



Length 44-33 mches ; head 1*04 inches; tail 6-12 

 12-42 „ „ 0-58 „ „ 2-75 



Ventrals 181; sub-eaudals 55 

 180 ,, 58 



Mandalay and Momien. 



Genus Bungarus, Daud, 

 BuNGARUs FASCiATXJS, Schneider. 



Bussell, Ind. Serpt., vol. i, 1796, p. 3, pi. 3. 



Pseudoboa fasciata, Schneider, Hist. Amph,, 1799-1800, p. 283, 



Bungarus annularis, Daud., Kept., vol. v, 1811, p. 265, pi. Ixv, figs. 1 & 2 ; Schlegel, Phys. Serpt., 



vol. ii, 1837, p. 457, pi. 16, fig. 21 ; Abbild. 1837-44, pi. 18, figs. 1-5. 

 Aspidoclonion annulare, Wagler, Syst. Amph., 1830, p. 193. 

 Bmgamsfasciatns, C^iioY, ^ouvn. A^.^OQ.,^eng2\,Yo\. xvi, 1847, p. 1034; Jerdon, Journ. As. 



Soc, Bengal, 1853, vol. xxii, p. 522; Gunther, Kept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 343 ; Theobald, Journ. 



As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 73 ; id., Journ. Linn. Soc, 1868, p. 62 ; id., Descr. 



Cat. Kept. B. Ind., 1876, p. 216; Fayrer, Thanatoph. India, 1872, pi. 9. 



Only one example of this species passed under my observation in Upper 

 Burma, having been captured at Tsagain on the right bank of the Irawady. 



CROTALIDtE. 



Genus Trimeresurtjs, Giinther. 



Trimeresurus gramineus, Shaw. 



Russell, Ind. Serpt., vol. i, 1796, p. 13, pi. ix. 

 Coluber gramineus, Shaw., Genl. Zool., 1802, vol. lii, p. 420. 

 Vipera viridis, Daud., Rept., vol. vi, 1803, p. 112. 

 Cop/das viridis, Merrem, Tentam, 1820, p. 155. 



Trigonocepkalus viridis, Schlegel, Ess. Phys. Serp., 1837, p. 544, pi. 19, figs. 12, 13. 

 Trigonocephalus gramineus, Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, 1847, p. 1040. 

 TrimereswMs viridis, Gv^j, Zool. Miseell., 1842, p. 48; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 1853 vol xii 

 p. 391 ; Cat. Snakes, B. M., 1849, p. 7. ^ - ^ 



