? 
? 
“ Chittul,’’ Russell, Ind. Serp., 
A MONOGRAPH OF THE SHA-SNAKES 
(HYDROPHTIN A‘). 
21 
=] 
‘ 
seen other specimens from Bombay and Karachi, but it is an uncommon 
form. Analogous to variety D(b) of cyanocincta. 
6(a) A form intermediate between these two groups is to be seen in a speci- 
men in the British Museum from Madras presented by Mr. Henderson. 
In this there are complete bands anteriorly, and dorsal bars posteriorly 
Analogous to variety A (c) of cvanocincta. 
Group (B) with transverse dorsal bars. 
DISTIRA CYANOCINCTA (Daudin). 
Hydrophis cyanocincta, 
) 
bop) 
+) 
subannulata, Gray, Cat., 
TESOL Hil, pls ix 
Daud., Rept., 1803, vii, p. 38 
Peters in Mon. Berl. Acad., 
Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., 
Fayrer, Thanatoph, Ind.., 
Lo) 
DS: 
RO72s Pp: O52, pl. The. 2. 
1864, p. 367. 
1874, pl. xxiii. 
Ewart, Pois. Snakes Ind., 1878, pl. 17. 
Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, 1884, p. 301. 
tuberculata, Anderson in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1871, pt. 2, p. 18. 
Murray, loc. ctt., p. 393. 
dayanus, Stoliczka in Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 89. 
1849, Pp. 54- 
aspera, Gray, Cat., p. 55. 
”) 
Giinther , 
loc. cit., 
p- 365. 
crassicollis, Anderson, loc. cit., p. 10. 
Fayrer, loc. cit., pl. xxit. 
+” 
” 
Ewart, Pois: Snakes Ind., 
1878, pl. 16. 
trachyceps, Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus., 1868, p. 70. 
phipsoni, Murray in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., ii, p. 32 and pl. 
1072305 (p leavtloner:. 
1840, Pp. 51. 
westermanni, Jan, Icon. Gén., 
doliata, Gray, Cat., 
Aturia belcheri, Gray, Cat. (1849), p. 46. 
Hydrophis belcheri, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 
Cat. ii, 1896, p. 296. 
Distira belcheri, Boulgr., 
? Hydrophis frontalis, Jan, loc. cit., 39, pl. v, fig. 2 
”) 
364. 
(non Boulgr.). 
subleevis, Gray in Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 62, and Cat., 1849, p. 52. 
p:' 360; pli xyes Kk Gk, 
elegans, Giinther, loc. cit., 
semperi, Garman in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 
pacificus, Boulgr., 
kingii, Boulgr., 
Cat. 
1881, p. 85. 
Cat., 1886, iti, p. 278, pl. xii, fig. 2 
71896, Li, p:/276: 
striatus, Schlegel, Phys. Serp., 1837, p. 502 
Aturia elegans, Gray in Zool. Misc., 
Chitulia fasciata, Gray, Cat., 
Distira belcheri, Boulgr., 
+), 
semperi, Boulgr. 
Cais 
MGA, 
1842, p. 63. 
1829, p. 506. 
ill, p. 
iii, p. 
, pl. xviii, figs. 4 and 5. 
