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I. Aipysurus eydouxi (Gray). 



Toinogastcr cydou.xii. Gray, Cat. 1 849, p. 59. 



Aipysurus eydouxi i, Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 304. 



Rostral more broad than deep, in contact with four shields; 

 praefrontals usually undivided, separated from the labials; 

 frontal longer than its distance from the tip of the snout, as 

 long as or longer than the parietals, in contact with six shields; 

 nasal in contact with the first and second upper labials and 

 with the praeocular or narrowly separated from the latter; 

 one prae- and two postoculars; temporals 1 + 2 or 2 + 2; six 

 upper labials, fourth entering the eye; anterior chin-shields 



Fig. 84. Aipysurus eydouxi (Gray). X V2- 



shorter than the posterior, which are separated by a shield. 

 Scales smooth, in 17 rows; ventrals 134 — 142, with a median 

 tubercle on each shield. 



Dark brown above, with transverse bands of yellow, black- 

 edged scales, often interrupted on the vertebral line; the bands 

 widening towards the flanks. Lower surface yellow, sometimes 

 with dark brown spots. Length of head and body 479 mm.; 

 tail 80 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Cheribon, Probolingo!); Borneo!; New 

 Guinea (Lorentz river!). — Singapore; Philippines. 



2. Aipysurus australis Sauvage. 



Aipysurus australis^ Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) I 1877, p. 114. 

 Aipysurus australis^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Ill 1896, p. 305. 



Shields of the head broken up into small and irregular 

 scales with small granular tubercles. Rostral more broad than 



