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uniform or streaked, and reticulated with white much as some 

 vars of liycodon aulicus Below white. 



Grows to 54 inches. Giinther says the tail is a seventh, but 

 it is usually less. 



Inhabits the whole of Continental India from Cape Komorin 

 to the Himalayas (but not Ceylon, according to Giinther), Sykkim, 

 Assam, Pegu, and Tenasserim, the Andamans (?) 

 ■ This is the ' krait' of Hindustan, and the harmless little i. 

 anlicus, or ' carpet snake,' so much dreaded. Probably owes its 

 evil name to the resemblance of some of its varieties to the 

 'krait.' 



B. fasciatus, Schn. 



B. annularis, Daud. 



Scales in 15 rows. Body alternately ringed black and yellow, 

 the bands not crossing the belly, the first being broadest and 

 produced into a triangular process resting on the vertical. Head 

 black. Throat and belly yellow. 



Grows, it is said, to 90 inches. An adult male taken in Pegu 

 measured 65 inches. (Tail 6.) 



Inhabits Peninsular India (locally), the Northern Sirkars, Ben- 

 gal, Kachar, Assam, Upper Barmah, Pegu, Tenasserim and the 

 Malayan Peninsula. 



B. Ceylonicus, Giinther. 



B. fasaidtus, var B. Giinther, Colubrine Snakes, p. 221. 



Eighteen or twenty broad black rings encircle the body, the 



white (yellow ?) intervals being very narrow, so as to produce 



the appearance of white bars on a black ground. In the young 



the black bands do not cross the belly. 



Inhabits Ceylon and Southern India, a specimen which I refer 

 to the species having been received by me from near Palam- 

 kottah, through the kindness of Major Swiney. 



B. flaviceps, Reinh. 



Megcerophis formosus, Gray. 

 Scales in 13 rows. Colour black. Head, neck, and a thin 



