NOTES. 
55 
numbers after the names show the totals received. Probably, I 
could have got a good many more rat-snakes (Zamenis mucosus), 
green whip-snakes ( Dryophis mycterizans), and brown pit-vipers 
(Ancistrodon hypnale) had I wanted them. One specimen of the 
green polonga (Lachesis trigonocephalus) measured rather over 32 
inches as he lay after having been killed by a cooly pruning tea. In 
Haly’s report on the collections of Reptilia and Batrachia in the 
Colombo Museum, 1891, only one specimen of Ablabes calamaria , 
without statement of locality, is recorded as having been presented 
by Mr, W. Ferguson. 
1. Python molurus (1). Strayed from low-country probably. 
2. Aspidura brachyorrhos (2). 
3. Lycodon aulicus (2). 
4. Ablabes calamaria (1). 
5. Oligodon sublineatus (2). Common on the patanas. 
6. Oligodon subgriseus (2). Common on the patanas. 
7. Zamenis mucosus (12). Very common. 
8. Coluber helena (2). 
9. Tropidonotus stolatus (4). Very common. 
10. Tropidonotus asperrimus (2). 
11. Tropidonotus plumbicolor (6). 
12. Dipsadomorphus ceylonensis (2). 
13. Dipsadomorphus Forstenii (5). The Sinhalese call this the 
“ roof snake ” in the vernacular. 
14. Dryophis mycterizans (9). Common. 
15. Bungarus ceylonicus (2). 
16. Naia tripudians (8). 
17. Vipera Russellii (2). 
18. Ancistrodon hypnale (9). Common. 
19. Lachesis trigonocephalus (2). 
I have known of two cases of bites from No. 18 and one from 
No. 19 during the last year, but in all cases the patients recovered in 
about three days. There was a lot of swelling and pain locally. In 
other cases it has been impossible to identify the snake. Since 
making the list as above, I have received a specimen of Dendrela- 
phis tristis* 
Moragalla, Badulla, S. H. PEARLESS. 
August 27, 1908. 
* This is the tree-snake commonly known in Ceylon under the name 
Dendrophispictus, another species which had been confused with it.— Ed. 
