OF THE MEEGT7I ARCHIPELAGO. 



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Family Li codontid je. 



Lycodon aulicus, Linn. 



2 Mergui ; 1 Sullivan Island. 



Family Dipsadid^e. 



Dipsas caeinata, Beinxo. 

 1 Sullivan Island. 



Recorded from Java and Cochin China. 



Family Pythonidje. 



Python eeticulatus, Schneider. 

 1 King Island ; 1 Sullivan Island. 



Family El APiDiE. 

 Naja teipudians, Linn. 



Common at Mergui, King, and Kisseraing Islands. 

 It belongs to the variety in which the hood has an oval mark 

 with a dark centre. 



Ophiophaous elaps, ScJilegeh 



1 King Island. 



On my way across King Island, from Kabeng-khyoung to the 

 west coast, a Karen had laid out in front of his house for my 

 inspection a specimen of this snake he had killed in the morning. 

 I measured it, and found it to be 14 feet 6 inches in length, which is 

 probably the largest measurement on record of a poisonous snake. 



Family Htdeophidj. 

 Hydeophis Jeedoni, Quniher. 



3 from the fishing-stakes at Mergui ; 1 caught at sea, seven miles 

 from land. 



Hydeophis eobusta, Qilnther, Bept. Brit. India, 1864, 

 p. 364. — Hydrophis Bishopii, Murray, Vert. Zool. of Sind, 1884, 

 p. 391, pi. xii. 



2 from the fishing-stakes at Mergui. 



One of these specimens measures 5 feet 550 inches in length, 

 and is marked with forty-six narrow black rings. "With this 

 exception and the greater number of ventrals (333), this specimen 

 agrees in every other detail with the types of the species in the 

 British Museum. 



