ON A NEW SNAKE OF THE GENUS OLIGOUON 



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2. Description of a new Snake of the Genus Oligodon 

 from Upper Burma. By Gr. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., 

 F.Z.S. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 

 [Received January 1, 1918 : Read February 5, 1918.] 

 (Text-figure 1.) 



Oligodon hamptoni. 



In»lQ905 I described a new Oligodon* occupying an isolated 

 position in the genus, of which two specimens had been obtained 



Text-figure 1. 



Oligodon hamptoni, sp. n. X 1{. 



at Mogok, Upper Burma, by the late Mr. Herbert Hampton. 



* Oligodon herberti Boulenger, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. xvi. 1905, p. 235, 

 pi. fig. 1. — The species has been rediscovered in Tonkin and notic?das O. herberti, 

 var. eberhardti, by Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxv. 1910, p. 30. 



