834 BEPTILIA. 



Bengal, vol. xxxix,. 1870, pp. 142 and 226; Blanfd., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 1870, p. 374; 



Anders., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xl, 1871, p. 37; Fayrer, Thanatoph., 1872, pi. xi; 



Ferguson, Rept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 25. 

 Echidna russellii, Steind., Reise Novara, 1867, p. 88. 

 Daioia elegans, Theob., Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. x, 1868, p. 64 ; Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 



1868, p. 77. 

 Vipera russelliiy Strauch., Mem. St. Petersbourg, vol. xiv, 1870, p. 85. 



I captured one example of this species at Pagan in Upper Burma, but quite 

 young, measuring only 25 inches. The ventrals are 164, and the sub-caudals 45, and 

 there are 29 rows of scales. 



