where they could fill in gaps, and extend our knowledge 

 would be induced to report cases coming under their 

 notice. Many large employers of labour, planters especi- 

 ally, must frequently get snake-bite casualties among 

 their coolies. To take examples, we have no single 

 record of symptoms of the poisoning of the banded krait 

 (Bungarus fasciatus)^ common as this snake is in Assam and 

 Burmah. Again, snakes so common as the black kraits 

 {B. lividus and niger) in Assam, as GallopMs macclellandi 

 in the Assam Hills and Eastern Himalayas, as the pit 

 vipers Lachesis macrolepis, anamallensis and strigatus in the 

 Southern Indian Hills, and L. irigonocephalus in Ceylon 

 should furnish many records which would be received 

 with appreciation by the author, or by the Secretary of 

 the Bombay Natural History Society. Any information, 

 however meagre, is worth reporting, and may prove 

 useful and even a badly mutilated snake is capable of 

 identification in competent hands. 



