HTDROPHOBTJS. 



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The following species rests only upon Cantor's diagnosis : — 



Ltcodon subfuscus, Cantor, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 50. 

 " Light brown ; yellowish white beneath. Ventrals 245 ; sub- 

 caudals 78." 

 Bengal. 



HuEEiAH sANGUivENTEE, Cantor, t. c. p. 52, is also probably a 

 Lycodon. 



" Claret-purple above, with, metallic lustre : blood-coloured 

 beneath. Yeutrals 2U7 ; subcaudals 09, the 14 anterior of which 

 are entire." See Giinther, Kept. B. I. p. 222, fig. 



Valley of Nepal. 



Genus HYDROPHOBUS, 

 Giintli. A. M. N. H. (3) ix, 1862, p. 127 *. 



Maxillary teeth 8 to 10, increasing in size posteriorly ; anterior 

 mandibular teeth a little longer than the posterior. Head 

 distinct from neck, much depressed ; eye moderate or rather large, 

 ■with vertically elliptical pupil ; head-shields normal, but pra;oculars 

 sometimes absent and the loreal usually enters the eye. Body 



Fig. 95. — Head of Hydrophohus nijmpha. 



slender, slightly compressed ; scales smooth, in 13 or 15 rows, 

 with apical pits ; ventrals strongly keeled on each side ; subcaudals 

 in two rows. 



This East-Indian genus, alHed to Lycodon, comprises five species, 

 three of which are described here. The two others are H. suhan- 

 nulatus, J). & B. {X>imiiliopludmm maculatam, Gthr.), from 

 Sumatra and Singapore, and //. mtielleri, D. & B., from the 

 Philippines. 



The name Odontomus, Dura. & Bibr. (1854), is preoccupied (Kii>by, 1837). 



