ay REPTILES. 
a. In spirits. Adult. White, with dark cross-bands; head and 
ventral shields black; the eyes over the fourth, fifth and the end 
of the third labial shields. Australia. Presented by Capt. P. 
P. King, R.N. 
D. doliata, Gray, in King’s Voy. App. 
b. 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. 61. 
** Head moderate, rounded in front ; neck moderate, thick. 
+ Scales rather broad, slightly keeled. 
6. SHaws Cuirrut. Hydrophis subcincta, Gray, Zool. 
Mise. 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 Cuirrut. Hydrophis sublevis, Gray, Zool. Misc. 62. 
Chittul, Russell, Ind. Serp. i. t.9. Hydrus cyanocinctus, Bote, 
Isis, 1827, 554, from Russell. Hydrophis cyanocinctus, Daud. 
Rept. viii. 383. Hydrus Brugmansii, Bote, Isis, 1827, 554, fide 
Schlegel. Enhydris cyanocinctus, Wagler, Syst. 166. Leioselasma 
cyanocinctus, Fitz. N. Class. Hydrophis nigrocinctus, adult, 
Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 585, t. 18, f. 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 
