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annulis nigris albo marginatis, squamis ovalibus, semicarinatis, mucrona- 

 tis, imbucatim tectus ; subtus albidus, nigro punctatus. 

 Scuta abdominalia 218. 

 Scutella subcaudalia 91. 

 Habitat. Naga Hills, Assam. 



Brownish grey above, with black white-edged rings, covered with 

 oval, half-keeled, pointed, imbricate scales ; whitish beneath, dotted 

 with black. 



Genus Bungarus, Daudin. 



Bungarus lividus. Bung, superne lividus, subtus albo-flavescens. 



Scuta abdominalia 221. 



Scuta subcaudalia 56. 

 Habitat. Assam. 

 Blackish-blue above, yellowish-white beneath. 



Genus Hamadryas,* Cantor. 



Hamadryas ophiophagus. Ham. superne olivaceo-viridis, striis sagittali- 

 bus nigris cinctus, abdomine glauco nigro marmorato. 

 Scuta abdominalia a 215 ad 245. 

 Scuta subcaudalia a 13 ad 32. 

 Scutella subcaudalia a 63 ad 71. 

 Habitat. Bengal. 



Hindustanee name : Sunkr-Choar. 



Olive-green above, with arrow-shaped black stripes ; beneath, glau- 

 cous marbled with black. 



Genus Naja, Laurenti. 



Naja larvata. Na. supra brunnea, striis subflavis transversalibus varie- 



gata; disco annulo albo, larvae haud imparl, ornato, pone quern (a tribus 



ad quinque) annuli albi; — inferior is super ficiei pars anterior annulis albis, 



nigro-ccerulescentibus alternis circumdata, pars posterior glauco iridescens. 



Habitat. Bombay, Calcutta, Assam. 



Bengallee name : Doollah-Kewtiah Nag. 



Brownish, with numerous faint yellow transverse stripes ; the hood 

 marked with a white ring, not unlike the form of a mask, behind which 

 there are from three to five white rings ; — the anterior part of the lower 

 surface with alternate white and bluish-black rings ; the posterior part 

 iridescent-glaucous . 



* Vide Proceedings of the Zoological Society, No. lxvi. p. 73. 



