HYDROPHIS STEWARTIT (N.S.), ANpzErson. 
“The neck moderately long and slender, and the head rather short 
and not much broader than the neck. The remainder of the body very 
much compressed. Rostral considerably broader than high. The nasals 
as broad posteriorly as they are long. The third and fourth labials enter 
the orbit, the former not being in contact with the nasal. Three tem- 
porals, the anterior the largest. Two post-oculars. Vertical much 
pointed behind ; occipitals long and narrow. Two almost quadrangular 
chin-shields in contact with each other. Thirty-three rows of scales 
round the neck. The scales hexagonal, not imbricate, with a feeble 
central tubercle. Ventrals 387, smooth. The first forty on the neck 
about four times as large as the adjoining scales, those behind them 
being small and narrow as they are traced backwards, and hardly 
discernible on the last six inches of the trunk. Two pairs of small 
seale-like anals. Tail broad, markedly dilating from its root. Lips 
yellowish. Upper surface of head and upper surface of neck and trunk 
ereenish olive. Under surface of head and sides and under surface of 
neck and trunk salmon coloured. Fifty-seven very obscure darker olive, 
almost black bars on the dorsal area of the neck and compressed portion, 
but not extending on to the light coloured sides. The tail greenish 
olive, mottled, and tipped with black. 
“ Length, 38” 3”, of which the tail constitutes 2” 8’. Girth round 
neck, two inches behind head, 2” 5’. Greatest depth of body, five 
inches before the tail, 1” 8’. Greatest thickness at that point, 0” 3”. 
Thickness at ventral margin at the same situation, 0” 2’. Snout to 
occiput, 0” 11’”.. Breadth across angle of mouth, 0” 7’. Locality— 
Pooree, Cuttack.” 
