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 inches; head 1'04 inches; tail 612 

 „ 12-43 „ „ 0-58 „ „ 2-75 



ii 



Ventrals 181 ; sub-caudals 55 

 180 „ 58 



Mandalay and Momien. 



Genus Bungarus, Daud. 

 BiJN&Aiius PASCIATUS, Schneider. 



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



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



Bungarus annularis, Daud., Rept., 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. 

 i?«»9'«rw^_/a«cjate. Cantor, Joum. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, 1847, p. 1034; Jerdon, Journ. As. 



Soc, Bengal, 1853, vol. xxii, p. 522; Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 343 ; Theobald, Jovirn. 



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



Cat. Rept. 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 Tsagaia on the right bank of the Irawady. 



CROTALIDtE. 



Genus Trimebesurus, Giinther. 



Trimerestjrtjs gramineus, Shaw. 



Russell, Ind. Serpt., vol. i, 1796, p. 1-3, pi. ix. 

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

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

 Cophias viridis, Merrem, Tentam, 1820, p. 155. 



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

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

 Trimeresurus viridis. Gray, Zool. Miscell., 1842, p. 48 ; Ann. & Mag, Nat. Hist., 1853, vol. xii, 

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



