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ikan" (fish market), beneath the platforms on which the Buginese fishermen 

 expose their catch for sale. They probably drop from the nets which the fisher- 

 men bring to the market to mend and dry during the latter part of the day, after 

 their catch has either been sold, or has spoiled from the heat. They do not live 

 more than a few hours out of water, and are always extremely inactive and offer 

 no resistance when handled. The fishermen at Makassar are not at all afraid 

 of them; but in Batavia they are considered deadly by the Malay fishermen. 

 Young specimens have the body more compressed and are of more brilliant color 

 than adults. In specimens about one foot in length the depth of body is nearly 

 2.5 times the thickness. Adults are barely compressed at all. It has been 

 impossible to examine anything but adult specimens of Acrochordus javanicus, 

 and the condition seen in the young of this species would be of the greatest 

 interest. In C. granulatus the young are boldly striped with vertical bars of 

 black and light buff. In many cases the light bands do not cross the dorsal 

 region. In adults the black becomes a dull brown, and the light regions of the 

 young show only a faint irregu'ar triangle of dirty lighter brown on the sides. 



This species has a wade distribution along the coasts of India and south- 

 eastern Asia, and throughout the Indonesian area to and including New Guinea. 

 It seems generally distributed. 



Sibynophis geminatus (Boie).' 

 BoiE, Isis, 1826, p. 211. Boulengeb, Cat. snakes Brit, mus., 1893, 1, p. 185. 



Type locality: — Java {fide Schlegel). 



Bryant had two individuals, both from Buitenzorg. This is another very 

 rare snake in western Java. These individuals were typical in every way, and 

 their scale-counts fell well within the limits set by Boulenger. 



Natrix mairii (Gray). 

 Gray. Grey's Journals Australia, 1841, 2, p. 442. BonLENOEB, Ann. Mus. civ. Geneva, 1898, 38, p. 703. 



Type locality: — New Holland. 



Boulenger {loc. cit.) in reporting on Loria's collection from British New 

 Guinea takes occasion to point out that this valid species, along with several 

 others, had been long wrongly buried in the synonymy of N. picturata (Schl.). 



Two examples from Fak Fak, Dutch New Guinea, collected by A. E. Pratt, 

 agree well with this species as now restricted. 



' For use of the name cf. Stejneger, Proc. IT. S. nat. mus., 1910, 38, p. 102. 



