The monocled cobra causes the highest fatality due to snake venom poisoning in Thailand. Adult monocled cobras reach a length of with a tail length of . In Thailand, the monocled cobra is responsible for the majority of snakebite fatalities. Some populations of the monocled cobra have the ability to spit venom. Grayson's "monocled dandy" remark let Gregory know that he was in danger of being exposed. Monocled cobras are terrestrial and most active at dusk. A historian of the British mission in Paris has described Clerk as "conventionally good-looking, monocled". The Chinese cobra is sometimes confused with the Monocled cobra ("Naja kaouthia"). Monocled cobras tend to have more than one cuneate scale on each side. Monocled cobras are distributed from India in the west through to China, Vietnam and Cambodia. On 9 September "The Daily Telegraph"s Defence Correspondent John Keegan criticised "The Monocled Mutineer". CHUMP's monocled chief Baron von Butcher inevitably hatched the latest plan to endanger the world.