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Colour bright yellow, ringed with black, with a black band commencing between the eyes, and broadening behind upon the nape and neck (fig. 24).

Especially abundant on the Coromandel Coast, in Bengal, and in Burma. In the North-west Provinces of India it is known as the Koclia-Krait. Its bite is very serious, but does not cause nearly so many fatalities as that of the Cobra, since its fangs are smaller.

Dogs bitten by B. fasciatus die in from four to five hours.

Fig. 24.—Bungarus fasciatus (India). (After Sir Joseph Fayrer.)