3. VIPBRA. 471 



1. Azemiops feae. 



AzemiopsfesB, Boideng. Ann. Mus. Genova,{2) vi. 1888, p. 603, pi. vii., 

 and Faun. Ind., Sept. p. 418, fig. (1890). 



Head elliptical, snout short and broad. Eostral moderate, broader 

 than deep ; internasala and praefrontals subequal in length ; frontal 

 a little broader than long, nearly thrice as broad as the supraocular ; 

 parietals as long as their distance from the end of the snout ; loreal 

 small, pentagonal, as deep as long ; two (or three) prseoculars ; two 

 postoculars; two large superposed anterior temporals, the upper 

 alone in contact with the postoculars j six upper labials, third 

 entering the orbit, first and second smallest, fourth and fifth largest; 

 seven lower labials, first large and forming a long suture with its 

 fellow, second small; a pair of short chin-shields. Scales in 17 

 rows. Ventrals 180 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 42. Blackish above, 

 the scales being dark grey in the centre and black on the borders, 

 with fifteen transverse white bands, one scale wide, some of which 

 are disconnected in the middle and alternate with those on the other 

 side ; upper surface of head, from the praefrontals, black, with a 

 yellow median line, which is very narrow anteriorly and widens 

 posteriorly, ending on the neck on the eleventh transverse series of 

 scales ; end of snout and sides of head yellow ; a blackish streak 

 from below the eye to the lower border of the fourth upper labial ; 

 another from the postoculars to the upper border of the sixth labial. 

 Lower parts ohve-grey, with some small lighter spots ; chin and 

 throat variegated with yellow. 



Total length 610 millim. ; tail 90. 



Kakhyen Hills, Upper Burma. 



3. VIPERA. 



Vipera, part., Zaiir. Syn. Rept. p. 99 (1768) ; Merr. Tent. Syst. 



Amph. p. 149 (1820) ; Jan, Elsnco sist, Ofid. p. 120 (1863) ; 



Strauch, 8yn. Viper, p. 21 (1869) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., jRept. 



p. 419 (1890). 

 PeUas, Merr. I. c. p. 148 ; Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 177 (1830) ; Gray, 



Cat. Sn. p. 31 (1849) ; Dum. ^ Bibr. Erp. G4n. vii. p. 1393 



(1854). 

 Echidna, part., Mei-r. I. c. p. 150 ; Bum. ^ Bibr. I. c. p. 1420. 

 Cobra, part., Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 33 (1826). 

 Vipera, Fitzing. I. e. ; Wagl. I. c. ; Gray, I. c. p. 30; Dum. Sr Bibr. 



I.e. p. 1403. 

 Rhinaspis {non Wagl), Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital., Anf. (1834). 

 Daboia, Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 69 (1842), and Cat. p. 23 ; GUnth. 



Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 395 (1864). 

 Echidnoides, Mauduyt, Herp. Vienne, p. 29 (1844). 



Head distinct from neck, covered with small scales, with or with- 

 out small frontal and parietal shields ; eye moderate or small, with 

 vertical pupil, separated from the labials by scales ; nostrils lateral ; 

 nasal in contact with the rostral or separated by a naso-rostral 



