. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 398 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. len<i;er under the oldest nanie, B. candidus. The typical form seems to be confined to islands in the Malayan Archipelago; another, var. cseruleus, extends over entire India (exclusive of the Himalayas and Ceylon) and the Malay Peninsula; the third, the one here treated of, is recorded from Toungoo, in lower Burma, not far from the Karennee Hills, and from A^arious localities in southern China. The first is considered most distinct, and there seems to be no good reason for connecting it nome
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 398 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. len<i;er under the oldest nanie, B. candidus. The typical form seems to be confined to islands in the Malayan Archipelago; another, var. cseruleus, extends over entire India (exclusive of the Himalayas and Ceylon) and the Malay Peninsula; the third, the one here treated of, is recorded from Toungoo, in lower Burma, not far from the Karennee Hills, and from A^arious localities in southern China. The first is considered most distinct, and there seems to be no good reason for connecting it nomenclaturally with our Chinese form. Of the Indian tropical form Boulenger ssijs that it is "almost completely connected" with B. multicinctus. This "almost" only prevents me at present from speaking of the latter as Bungarus csendeus multicinctus. Another very closely allied form, differing chiefly in the less-pro- nounced enlargement of the median dorsal scale row, B. lividus, inhabits Assam. The Ceylon krait B. ceylonicus, is another nearly related form. Description.—Adult male; Science College Museum, Tokyo, No. 15; Taipa, Formosa; November, 1897; T. Tada, collector (figs. 325- 327). Rostral broader than high; visible from above; internasals,. Figs. 325-327.—Bungakus multicinctus. nat. size. 325, underside of head; 326, side of head; 327, top of head. No. 15, Sci. Coll. Tokyo. broader than long, half as large as prefrontals which are broadly in contact with supraoculars; frontal as long as its distance from tip of snout and interparietal suture twice as wide as supraoculars at center of eye; parietals much longer than frontal, nearly as long as their distance from tip of snout; nostril large, vertically elli]>tic, between two nasals, the posterior narrowed behind so as to meet the preocular in a very short suture; no loreal; one long preocular, anteriorly in narrow contact with posterior nasal; eye rather small, its vertical diameter shorter than it
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