22 THE POISONOUS SNAKES OP INDIA. 



Colour. — Glistening black with linear, white arches thrown in 

 pairs across the back, sometimes more or less absent in front. 

 Belly white. 



BUNGARUS SINDANUS— The Sind Krait.'' 



Called " Pee-un " by the natives of Upper Sind. 



Identification.' — The scales over the back are in 17 (rarely 19) 

 rows in midbody, the first three supralabials are sub-equally broad, 

 and the body is round in section. 



8u]yplementary cha/raders. — The vertebrals are as broad, or broader 

 than long in midbody. The subcaadals are entire. (Except in the 

 tjrpe specimen where a few of the last are divided.) 



Distribution. — Rajputana, Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab. 



Poison. — Nothing known. 



Dimensions. — Grows to 6 feet. 



Colour. — Black with white cross bars most evident posteriorly and 

 usually paired. 



It is extremely like the common krait, (cseruleus) in its 

 markings. 



BUNGARUS WALLI-Wall's Kraitt 



Identification. — Scales in 17 or 19 rows, the vertebral scales as 

 broad or broader than long, and a distinctly compressed body. 



* In a note to be published shortly in the Bombay Natural History Journal, I 

 have given good reasons, I think, to doubt whether sindanus is entitled to rank as 

 a species apart from cceruleus. I think specimens of kraits from Indore with 

 17 scale rows will prove to be cmruleus, since I see no tendency toward compression 

 of the body as far as I can judge from the spirit specimens submitted to me. 



t Though I am aware that Dr. Annandale (Proc As. Soc. Bengal New Series, 

 Vol. Til, No. 7, 1911.) thinks that this Form is not different from sindanus 

 (Boulenger), I adhere to my original opinion. The marked compression of the body 

 in walU proclaims it a very distinct snake from sinda/riMS. I have not examined 

 sindanus in life and the compression of a snake's body is often a very difficult 

 matter to ascertain after distortion in spirit, but Major Ward giving me details of 

 5 specimens that I consider sindatms from Fort Sandeman remarks " the body is 

 not compressed." 



In snakes such as Zamenis mucosus, and korros, etc., which have a markedly 

 compressed body one never sees an individual exception in this feature, any more 

 than one finds, exceptions in the conformation of a snake's body which like 

 Bungarus ccsruleus is round 



