231. BUNGAETTS. 367 



Total length 1450 millim. ; tail 130. 



-Bengal, Southern India, Assam, Burma, Southern China, Indo- 

 China, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java. 



a. Yg. (V. 220 ; 0. 86). Anamallays. Col. Beddome [0.1 



b. S (V. 228 ; C. 37). Bengal. Gen. Hardwicke fP.! 



c. Yg. (V. 225 ; C. S3). India. W. Masters, Esq. TP.!. 

 (?. Yg. (V. 218;C. 37). Ruby Mines, Upper Major Bingham [P.]. 



Burma. 



«,/-.9- c? (V. 213; C. Toungoo. E. W. Oates, Esq. rp.l 



28)&$(V.217,204; ' 1 L j 



C. 26, 23). 



h. <S (V. 216 ; C. 33). S. China. J. C. Bowring, Esq.FP.l. 



i. 2 (V.222; C. 34). Siam. W. H. Newman, Esq. 



[P.]. 



k. cJ (V. 220; 0.37). Siam. Sir R. Schomburgk 



[P.]. 



I. $ (V. 227; C. 34). Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



m. d (V. 234 ; C. 39). Deh, Sumatra. Mr. Iversen rCl 



n. Hgr. (V. 207 ; C. 36). Java. A. Scott, Esq. [P.]. 



0. 



cJ skeleton. India. 



2. Bungarus ceylonicus. (Piatb XIX. fig. 3.) 



Bungarus fasoiatus, var. B., Giinth. Cat. p. 221 (1858). 



— ceylonicus, Oiinth. Sept. Brit. Ind. p. -344 (1864) ; Theob. Cat. 

 Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 216 (1876) ; F. Mull. Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, 

 viii. 1887, p. 276 ; BouUng. Faun. Ind., Sept. p. 388 (1890). 



Rostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal a little longer than 

 broad, as long as or a little shorter than its distance from the end 

 of the snout, much shorter than the parietals ; one prae- and two 

 postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 ; seven upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye ; . two pairs of short, subequal chin- shields, the 

 anterior in contact with three lower labials. Scales in 15 rows, 

 vertebrals much enlarged, broader than long. Ventrals 219-235 ; 

 anal entire ; subcaudals single, 33-40. Black, with whitish annuli 

 which may be very indistinct and broken up on the back in the 

 adnlt ; lower parts uniform white in the young. 



Total length 1000 millim. ; tail 90. 



Ceylon. 



a, b, c, d, e,f, g, h. 3 (V. Ceylon. ^ 



2.35,229,234; 0. 35,36, 

 39), hgr. (V. 219, 226 

 C. 36, 38), & yg. (V. 22S 

 228, 227 ; C. 40, 35, 36) 



I 



39), hgr. (V. 219, 226; --3 



C.36,38),&yg.(V.225, I^J 



' CD 



I. Yg. (V. 226 ; 0. 33). Ceylon. B. Templeton, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Yg., head and ant. part Ceylon. Capt. Gascoigne [P.j. 



of body. 



I. S (V. 224; C. 37). Ceylon. W. Ferguson, Esq. [P.]. 



