380 COIITBRID^. 



5. Naia tripudians. 



Seha, Thes. i. pi. xliv. fig. 1 (1734), and ii. pis. Ixxxix. figs. 1-4, xc. 



figs. 1 & 2, and xcvii. figs. 1 & 2 (1735) ; Russell, Ind. Serp. i. 



pis. V. & vi. (1796), & ii. pis. i. & xxxvi. (1801). 

 Coluber naja, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 30, pi. xxi. fig. 1 (1754), 



and S. N. i. p. 382 (1767). 

 Naja lutescens, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 91 (1768) ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. 



Rept. p. 117 (1847). 



fasciata, Laur. I. c. 



brasiliensis, Laur. I. c. 



siamensis, Laur. I. c. 



maculata, Laur. I. u. 



non naja, Laur. I. o. p. 92. 



Coluber csecus, Gmel. 8. N. i. p. 1104 (1788). 



rufua, Gmel. I, c. p. 1105. 



peruvii, Lac^p. Serp. ii. pp. 90 & 102 (1789). 



brasilise, Lacep. I. c. pp. 90 & 104. 



Vipera naja. Baud. Rept. vi. p. 61, pi. Ixxi. (1803). 



Elaps fuscusj Merr. Tent. p. 144 (1820). 



Naja tripudians, Merr. I. c. p. 147; Oray, HI. Lnd. Zool. ii. pis. 



Ixxvii.-lxxix. (1834) ; Sehleg. Rhys. Serp. ii. p. 466, pi. xvii. figs. 



1-3 (1887) ; Bum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 1293 (1854) ; Oiinth. Rept. Brit. 



Lnd. p. 338 (1864) ; Stoliczka, Joum. As. Soo. Beng. xxiix. 1870, 



p. 211 ; Fayrer, Thanatoph. Lnd. pis. i.-vi. (1874) ; Jan, Leon. Qdn. 



45, pi. i. fig. 3 (1874) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Lnd. p. 208 (1876) ; 



Blanf. Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 1. 1881, p. 241 ; Murray, Zool. Sind, 



p. 387 (1884) ; Tira7it, Rept. Cochinch. p. 30 (1885) ; Boettg. 



Zool. Jahrb. iii. 1888, p. 943; BouUng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, 



p. 35, and Faun. Lnd., Rept. p. 391, fig. (1890) ; v. Lidth de 



Jeude, Notes Leyd. Mus. xii. 1890, p. 26, and in M. Weber, Zool. 



Frgebn. i. p. 191 (1891) ; W. Sclater, Joum. As. Soc. Beng. Ix. 



1891, p. 246 ; Bouleng. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (6) xiv. 1894, p. 84. 

 sputatrix, Boie, Lsis, 1827, p. 557 ; Bouleng. Faun. Lnd., Rept. 



p. 391. 

 Tomyris oxiana, Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 171 (1831), and Faun. 



Casp.-Caue. p. 104, pi. xx. (1841). 

 Naja tripudians, vara, fasciata & nigra. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. 

 ■ kaouthia, Lesson, in BManff. Voy. lnd. Or., Rept.- p. 312, pi. ii, 



(1834). 

 — ^ larvata. Cantor, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 32. 



atra. Cantor, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. ix. 1842, p. 482. 



tripudians, var. sondaica, Sehleg. AbUld. p. 139, pi. xlviii. figs. 



1-10 (1844). 



tripudians, part., Giinth. Cat. p. 228 (1858). 



tripudians, var. scopinucha, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1859, 



p. 343. 

 oxiana, Strauch, Bull. Ac. St. PStersb. xiii. 1868, p. 87, and 



Schl. Russ. R. p. 204 (1873) ; Nikolsky, Tr. St. Petersb. Soc. Nat. 



xvii. 1886, p. 405; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. (2) v. 1889, p. 103, 



pi. xi. fig. 2. 

 tripudians, var. unicolor, Peters, Preuss. Exped. O.-As., Zool. 



i. p. 382 (1876). 



Eye moderate, one third to one half the length of the snout. 

 Eostral once and one fourth to once and a half as broad as deep, its 



