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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF T H E MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 689 Platurus laticaudatus, Blgr. Fauna Ind., Rept. p. 395 (head fig. p. 394); Blgr. Cat, Snakes, iii. p. 307. The British Museum contains a specimen from Chantaboon, Siam. Hab. Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Siam, Loo Choo Islands, New Guinea, and the Western South Pacific (Fiji, New Hebrides, Australia, and Tasmania). 200. PLATURUS COLUBRINUS (Schn.). Ljaticauda scutata, Cantor, p. 125. Platurus colubrinus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, p. 308 (skull fig. p. 307). Recorded from Penang and Singapore; Cantor obtained only three specimens in four years, so it is apparently not numerous. Hab. Bay of Bengal, Engaiio, Straits of Malacca, Malay Archipelago, and the Western South PaciGc (Fiji, New Hebrides, Australia, and New Zealand). Subfamily ELAPINJL*. 201. BUNGARUS FASCIATUS (Schn.). Bungarus fasciatus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 366. Localities. This fine snake, coloured yellow and black in alternate rings, is popularly confounded with the harmless Dipsadomorphus dendrophilus, so may not be as numerous in the Malay countries as some suppose ; it is known to occur in the following localities :- Penang (Cantor and Stoliczka), Province Wellesley (Cantor and Van Sommeren coll.), Kuala Lumpor (Selangor Museum), Malacca (Hanitsch, Rep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 10), Johore (Kelsall, vide post.), and Singapore (Blanford). Two specimens supposed to have been caught in Bangkok are in the Siamese Museum ; and the British Museum Catalogue mentions two specimens from Siam, presented by Sir R. Schomburgk and W . H. Newman, Esq. H. J. Kelsall, J. S. B. Royal Asiatic Soc. no. 26, 1894, p. 12, when on the Batu Pahat Sembrong in Johore, " saw a fine specimen of the banded viper (Bungarus fasciatus) in a hole in the bank. On an attempt being made to kill it, it took to the water and by diving escaped." Size. A specimen caught in Kuala Lumpor, Selangor, measured in total length 1270 mm. (or 4 feet 2 inches). Hah. India, Assam, Burma, Southern China, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java. 202. BUNGARUS CANDIDUS (L.). Bungarus cceruleus, Blgr. Fauna Ind., Rept. p. 388. Bungarus candidus, Cantor, p. 113; Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 368 (skull fig. p. 365). Localities. The Krait, supposed to be one of the most deadly of |