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double ocellus or " spectacle mark" more or less well developed. 

 I have not myself seen the common Lower Bengal and Burmese 

 form with the single large ocellus on the neck in Central India. 



28. Bungarus ceruleus, (S c h n e i d.) 



A female of this much dreaded snake was brought to me at 

 Korba in Bilaspur. It contained 9 eggs, each above an inch long, 

 enclosed in a cartilaginous skin. Length of the snake 35 inches, 

 of the tail 3£. 



29. Daboia Eussellii, (S h a w.) 



Although not abundant I have seen this snake in S. E. Berar, 

 and also near Betul. It is a sluggish animal ; a friend once told 

 me he had carried one home under the belief that it was a young 

 Python, the markings not being much dissimilar ; it made no 

 attempt to injure him, and he was only undeceived by one of his 

 dogs being bitten and quickly killed bythe snake. 



Class AMPHIBIA. 



30. Eana cyanophlyctis, S c h n e i d. 



Extremely common in tanks, keeping in the water or on the ed^e. 

 My largest specimens are less than 2 inches in length, but I have 

 seen some a little larger. 



Loc. S. E. Berar, Chanda, Eaipur. I did not see this frog in 

 the country east of Bilaspur where there are no large tanks. 



31. Eaxa gracilis, W i e g. 



Equally common with the last in Chanda and Eaipur. It keeps 

 more in marshy ground at some distance from the water's edge. 



Gr ii n t h e r mentions that specimens of this frog received from 

 Madras have the hind legs a little longer than examples from Indo- 

 Chinese countries. I find them in frogs from the Central Provinces 

 to be considerably longer than the dimensions said to prevail 

 usually, instead of the distance from the vent to the metatarsal 

 tubercle being equal to that of the body or a little more, it exceeds 

 the latter in a proportion varying in different specimens between 

 6:5 and 10:9. I did not obtain a single example exceeding 1-3 

 inches in length of body. The coloration varies greatly, usually it 





