The other day a specimen of this viper, caught under a water butt near the cotton market, was brought to me alive in a bottle. Its not being visible, I concluded it was the common green snake Macropisthodon plumbicolor and was in the point of brining it out and seizing it with my hands, when the green color, however struck me as being rather vivid and a closer look at its head revealing its identity. This is the first specimen I have seen in Nagapur. Wall says it does not occur in the plains of India, but an altitude of from 1,500-6000 feet, Nagpur is just below 1000 feet.