52 REPTILES. 



a. In spirits. Adult. White, with dark cross-bands; head and 

 ventral shields black ; the eyes over the fourth, filth and ihe end 

 of the third labial shields. Australia. Presented by Capt. P. 

 P. King, R.N. 



D. doliata, Grar/, in Kings Voy. App. 



h. In spirits. Young. Head and ventral shields black ; body 

 white ; back with broad, oblong, transverse black spots, and 

 alternating narrow black cross-bands, and sides with a series of 

 round black spots ; keels only to be observed on the black scales; 

 nasal shield, with a small broad shield on each side between it 

 and the upper edge of the front labial : eye over the broad 

 fourth shield. N. Coast Australia, Port Essington. From 

 Mr. Gilbert's collection. 



Aturia elegans, Gray^ Zool. Misc. Q\. 



** Head moderate.^ rounded in front ; neck moderate, thick. 

 f Scales rather broad, slightly keeled. 



6. Shaw's Chittul. Hydrophis subcincta. Gray, Zool. 

 Misc. 63. Hydrus major, var., Shaw, Zool. iii. 559. 



Above pale blackish ash in spirits, with some whitish cross- 

 bands ; whitish beneath -. one anterior and two posterior oculars : 

 temporal shield large, triangular: head rather small; neck much 

 slenderer than the body : second upper labials very large, oblique ; the 

 lower lip with a small, triangular, marginal scale; chin shields two 

 pairs : scales with a very slight, short, tubercular-like keel near the 

 end of those of the neck, and in the middle of the other scales, most 

 distinct in the ventral scales ; ventral shield rather broad, with two 

 small tubercles, and very often marked with a central groove. 



a. In spirits. Indian Ocean. Old collection. Described by Dr. 

 Shaw. 

 Hydrus major, var., Shaw. 



7. The Chittul. Hydrophis sublEBvis, Gray, Zool. Misc. 62. 

 Chittul, Russell, Ind. Serp. i. t. 9. Hydrus cyauocinctus, Boie, 

 Isis, 1827, 554, from Russell. Hydrophis cyanocinctus, Daud. 

 Rept. viii. 383. Hydrus Brugmansii, Boie, Isis, 1827, 554, fide 

 Schlegel. Enhydris cyanocinctus, Wagler, Syst. 166. Leioselasma 

 cyanocinctus, Fitz. N. Class. Hydrophis nigrocinctus, adult, 

 Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 585, t. 18, /. 8—10 (not 6—8 as cited). 



Yellow, black varied : body with irregular black rings : back of 

 neck with broad black cross-bands: lips and beneath pale; scales 



