304 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Dimensions. 



mm. 



Total length 377 



Snout to vent 314 



Vent to tip of tail 63 



Variation. — In the few specimens of this species recorded the num- 

 ber of ventrals varies between 158 and 164, subcaudals between 47 

 and 54. 



Habitat. — Apparently restricted to China. The authority for the 

 the occurrence of this species in Formosa is a specimen in the Indian 

 Museum (No. 12693) recorded by Mr. W. L. Sclater (I. c). It was 

 received from the Hongkong Museum in exchange. 



List of specimens of Enhydris bennettii. 



a Description, p. 302; flgs. 2U3-265. 



Genus HURRIA" Daudin. 



1803. Eurria Daudin, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, III, no. 72, March, 1803, p. 187 



(type, Ilydnis rynchops). 

 1813. Huria Fischer, Zoognosia, 3 ed., I, p. 65 (emendation). 

 1815. Hurrianus Rafinesque, Anal. Nat., p. 77 (emendation). 

 1820. Strephon Goldfusz, Handb. Zool., II, p. 151 (substitute for Huma). 

 1829. Cerberus Cuvier, Regne Anim., 2 ed., II, p. 81 (type. Coluber cerberus). 

 1839. Cerebus Swainson, Classif. Fish. Amph. Rept., II (Lardner's Cab. Encycl.), 



p. 366 (lapsus). 



The name Cerberus, by which this genus is generally laiown, must 

 give way to Flurria of Daudin, 1803, the exclusive type of which is 

 Russell's, Indian Serpents, pi. xl, which Doctor Boulenger identifies 

 as //. rynchoj^s. 



HURRIA RYNCHOPS b (Schneider). 



1799. Hydrus rynchops Schneider, Hist. Amphib., I, p. 246 (based on Russell, 

 Ind. Serp., I, pi. xvii; type-locality, Ganjam). 



1801. Flaps boacformis Schneider, Hist. Amphib., II, p. 301 (type-locality not 



given; type in Mus. Univers. Halle). 



1802. Hydrus cincreus Shaw, Gen. Zool., Ill, Pt.2, p. 567 (based on Russell, pl.xvii). 



1803. Hurria schneideriana Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., V, p. 281 (substitute name 



for Flaps boacformis Schneider). 

 1803. Hurria bilineata Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., V, p. 284 (based on Russell, Ind. 

 Serp., II, pi. XL; type-locality, Hyderabad). 



a From the Indian name Hurriah, by which Russell designated the snake which 

 Daudin named Hurria bilineata. 



b From Rynchops, better rhynchops, from pvyx^'i^ snout, and o3^, eye, or face. 



