Habitat: Sarawak, Labuan, Borneo.

Fig. 27.—Naja tripudians (Cobra-di-Capello). (After Sir Joseph Fayrer.)

Naja samarensis.

Internasal shields shorter than the præfrontals, and in contact with the præoculars; 1-3 large occipital shields behind the parietals; 1 præocular and 3 postoculars; 2 + 2 or 2 + 3 temporals; 7 supralabials, 4 infralabials; 21-23 scales across the neck, 17-19 across the middle of the body; 159-175 ventrals; 45-50 subcaudals.

Coloration black or sometimes yellowish above; pale brown or yellowish on the belly; neck black.

Total length, 1,000 millimetres; tail 160.

Habitat: Philippine Islands.

Naja bungarus (Ophiophagus or Hamadryas elaps).

(King Cobra or Hamadryad.)