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I am familiar with this snake, having examined 15 specimens, and I think there can 

 be no doubt that the specimen referred to by Dr. Annandale as Distira andama?iica is 

 really D. ornata. It accords well with others I have records of in my note-book. Com- 

 pared with Boulenger's description in Vol. Ill, Catalogue of Snakes in the British Museum, 

 the scales appear to be rather few, but my own records make the scales anteriorly 30 to 

 36, and in midbody 33 to 50. 



14. Distira brugmansii (Boie). 



Distira brugmansii, Blgr. Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. IIT, p. 292. 



,, ,, Wall in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903, p. 96. 



Distira robusta, Sclater, List Snakes Lid. Mus., 1891, p. 65, Nos. 8243, 8245, 



8273, .11485, 11505, 12914, 12915, 12916, 12917, 12918, 

 12919, 12920, I3i55> 13324. 

 „ ,, Wall and Evans in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. XIII, p. 615. 



Hydrophis spiralis, Wall and Evans in Journ* Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. XIII, p. 348. 











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8243 



Young ... 



Puri 



Sir J. Favrer 



30 



35 



33 





824s 



ii ... 



>> 



,, ■» ... ... 



28 



32 



30 



329 



8273 





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,, ,, ... ... 



... 



... 



... 



... 



1 1485 





Mergui 



J. Anderson 



... 



... 







H505 





j* . 



11 " 



29 



35 



32 



337 



12914 





Ganjam 



Mus. Collector ... 



29 



33 



3i 



333 



12915 





1, ... 



>t 11 • ■• ... 



27 



31 



29 



323 



12916 





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,, >) ... ... 



2 7 



32 



3i 



343 



12917 





>. 



., ,, 



27 



33 



29 



345 



12918 





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,1 >> ••• ... 



29 



32 



32 



325 



12919 





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28 



33 



33 



337 



12920 





.1 



i) )> ••• ••• 



30 



. 35 



3+ 



356 



13155 





Cuddalore 



F. Grieves 



27 



3+ 



32 



359 



J 33 2 4 





Singapore 



Raffles Mus. (Davison) 



31 



36 



33 



325 



Rostral, — portion. ssen above half or more than half the suture between the nasals. 

 Prefrontals touch the 2nd supralabial (two exceptions in 24 specimens). Frontal,— 

 parietal sutures largest, but not twice the ' prefrontals. Temporals,— one, large, which 

 -often reaches the labial margin, and is succeeded by one or more large shields which touch 

 the parietals. ' Ma; ginals,— two or three after the 3rd in fralabial (rarely one only)'. In- 

 fralabials,—Jhve. Suture between the first less than that between the anterior sub- 

 linguals ; the -4th ...the largest, and in contact with -three or four scales behind. Sub- 

 hnguals, — two-well developed pairs, both in contact. Costals, — imbricate throughout* w 



