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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 691 Description (notes on). No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Locality. Bangkok. „ 2 Alor Star, Kedah. Taiping, Perak. Ventrals. 185 186 185 178 181 184 183 171 Subcaudals. 53 ? ? 55 55 51 56 ? Neck-scales. 31 29 30 ? ? 28 28 27 Body-scales. 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 19 Length. mm. 400 1619 1683 1803 1830 (or 6 feet) 1830 (or 6 feet] 432 1441 Colour variety. C.b. 99 ? Remarks. 1 prse- & 3 postoculars. 3 postoculars, temporals 2 -f- 3. Habits. A female killed in Bangkok on the 17th January, 1898, contained nineteen eggs, measuring, greater axis 53 mm., lesser axis 34 m m . The Siamese assured me they sometimes lose buffaloes through the Cobras which frequent the fields where the cattle graze, the bite of the snake being sufficiently poisonous to kill such large animals. Colour (in life). Siamese Cobras.-Above varying from uniform olive-brown to deep black, with brownish head. Below grey or bluish black. Lips, chin, and throat bright yellow. " Hood " ornamented with (usually) a very well-defined bright yellow Q, edged both inside and out with black. Under surface of " hood " yellow, with a black spot on each side. Behind the " hood" a yellow collar, broad beneath, and above mottled with brown or dividing into two very narrow lines, the anterior straight across the neck, the posterior chevron-shaped, pointing backward. Perak Cobra.-Above uniform pale yellowish brown, no markings on " hood," which when expanded looks very yellow, owing to the pale yellow skin showing between the scales. Underneath the neck are a short median series of indistinct brownish spots, and three pairs of brownish spots. Remainder of lower surface pale yellow. Hab. Southern Continental Asia from Transcaspia to China, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula, and the islands of Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Flores, Ombaai, Borneo (I obtained Var. F at Kudat), Palawan, Philippines, Hainan. 205. NAIA BUNGARUS Schl. Hamadryas ophiophagus, Cantor, p. 116. Naia bungarus, Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 386. " Toodong sindok " of the Malays of Kedah. " Ular teedong selar" of the Malays of Perak (according to L, Wray). |