HYDftOPHIS STEWARTII (N.S.), Anderson. 



" The neck moderately long and slender, and the head rather short 

 and not much broader than the neck. The remainder of the body very 

 much compressed. Rostral considerably broader than high. The nasals 

 as broad posteriorly as they are long. The third and fourth labials enter 

 the orbit, the former not being in contact with the nasal. Three tem- 

 porals, the anterior the largest. Two post-oculars. Vertical much 

 pointed behind ; occipitals long and narrow. Two almost quadrangular 

 chin-shields in contact with each other. Thirty-three rows of scales 

 round the neck. The scales hexagonal, not imbricate, with a feeble 

 central tubercle. Ventrals 387, smooth. The first forty on the neck 

 about four times as large as the adjoining scales, those behind them 

 being small and narrow as they are traced backwards, and hardly 

 discernible on the last six inches of the trunk. Two pairs of small 

 scale-like anals. Tail broad, markedly dilating from its root. Lips 

 yellowish. Upper surface of head and upper surface of neck and trunk 

 greenish olive. Under surface of head and sides and under surface of 

 neck and trunk salmon coloured. Fifty-seven very obscure darker olive, 

 almost black bars on the dorsal area of the neck and compressed portion, 

 but not extending on to the light coloured sides. The tail greenish 

 olive, mottled, and tipped with black. 



" Length, 38" 3'", of which the tail constitutes 2" 8"'. Girth round 

 neck, two inches behind head, 2" 5'". Greatest depth of body, five 

 inches before the tail, 1" 8"'. Greatest thickness at that point, 0" 3'". 

 Thickness at ventral margin at the same situation, 0" 2'". Snout to 

 occiput, 0" 11"'. Breadth across angle of mouth, 0" 7'". Locality — 

 Pooree, Cuttack." 



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