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MAJOR F. WALL, I.M.S., C.M.Z.S. 



Distira tuberculata, Boulgr. in Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Rept. and Batrach. 



1890, p. 409, and Cat., iii, p. 293. 

 ,, Sclater, List Snakes Ind. Mus., 1891, p. 65. 



lapemidoides, Sclater, loc. cit., p. 66, Nos. 8278 and 8632. 

 grandis, .BoM/gr., Cat., in, p. 292, and pi. xvi. 

 macfarlani, Boulgr., Cat., iii, p. 294, and pi. xvii. 



cyanocincta, Boulgr. in Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Rept. and Batrach., 

 1890, p. 410, and Cat., iii, p. 294. 

 ,, Wall in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903, p. 96, and Mem. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1906, p. 291, and in Spot. Zeylan., August 

 1907, p. 171. 

 ,, Sclater, loc. cit., p. 65. (Except No. 8242). 



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Fig. 28. — Distira cyanocincta. 



Fig. 2Q. — Distira westermanni. After Jan, Icon. Gen. livr. 39, p. v, fig. 1. 



The specific title originated with Daudin, who applied it to the original of plate 

 ix. in Russell's second volume. A specimen now in the British Museum collected by 

 Russell and labelled from the Sunderbunds is, without doubt, this very specimen; for 

 Russell, on the last page of this volume, mentions the Sunderbunds as the locality 

 from which the original of this plate was obtained. Mr. Boulenger omits to record 

 the discovery of this type, which had previously been lost sight of. 



With this species, I am of opinion, should be united several forms previously des- 

 cribed as distinct by various authors, and considered as such by Mr. Boulenger in his 

 Catalogue (1896). All of these appear to me to be separated on insufficient grounds 

 affecting shields, which analogy shows to be inconstant in many individuals of certain 



