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vertebral line bright coral red. Belly red or black anteriorly, 

 •ed posteriorly. 



Grows to 73 inches. (TaU 9.) 



Inhabits Tenasserim, Pinang, Java, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Sub-order 3. Viperine Sjtakes. 



Snakes furnished with long tubular erectile fangs on an 

 jxtremely short maxillary bone. 



Family Vipeeid^. 



Body stout. Tail short. Head broad. No pit in the loreal 

 egion. Eye with vertical pupil. Scales keeled. Physiognomy 

 •epulsive. Viviparous. 



Daboia, Oray. 



Head covered with scales. Nostril lateral, extremely large, 

 )etween three shields. A narrow superciliary shield. Scales 

 itrongly keeled in 29 to 31 rows. Subcaudals bifid. 



D. Russellii, Shaw. 



Vipera clegans, Daud. 



Colour above greyish or reddish brown, with three rows of 

 )lack, white-edged annular ocelli down the back and sides. The 

 'ertebral series ovate, the outer ones circular. Sometimes sup- 

 )lementary ocelli of small size interspersed below between the 

 thers. A broad arrow mark on the head formed by two pale 

 tnes from the snout over the eyes to the temporal region- 

 lostral and labials yellowish with brown margins. A brown 

 pot below the eye and head elegantly marbled. Belly yellowish 

 ir marbled with brown, and with numerous semi-circular spots 

 n the hind margins of the ventrals. 



Grows to 54 inches. 



Inhabits Northern, Central, and Southern India, the Panjab, 

 [Kashmir, the Himalayas up to 5,000 feet, Bengal, Ceylon, Arakan, 

 nd Pegu, and perhaps Tenasserim, but I have no certain record 

 f it below Rangun. 



This snake, called ' Tic-pcelonga' in Ceylon, ' Chanda-bora' or 

 Tloo-hora in Bengal, ' il//tor hhwi' in Barma, and Cobra monil 



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