ee ee | 
290 COLUBRID, 
e. 6 (V.217). Holothuria Bank, N.W. - J. J. Walker, Esq, 
| Australia, (P.]. 
a, Hgr. (V. 233). Cape York. 
e. Hgr, (V. 200). Off Cooktown, N. Queensland. Capt. Drevar [C.]. 
3. Distira ornata. 
Aturia ornata, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 61 (1842), and Cat. p. 45 (1849). 
Hydrophis ocellata, Gray, Cat. p. 53; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 378, 
i XXV. ig. P (1864); Peters §& Doria, Ann, Mus. Genova, xiii. 
8, p. 416. 
Chitulia inornata, Gray, Cat. p. 56. 
aherree schlegelii, Schmidt, Abh. Naturw. Hamb, ii. 1852, 
p. 83, pl. v. 
Hydrophis striatus, part., Dum. & Bibr. vii. p. 1847 (1854). 
— schlegelii, Fischer, Abh. Naturw. Hamb. iii. 1856, p. 50; Jan, 
Icon. Gén. 40, pl. vi. fig. 1 (1872). 
— levis, Liitken, Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, p. 309, pl. i. fig. 6. 
— ornata, Giinth. l. c. p. 376, pl. xxv. fig. V; Boettg. Zool. Anz. 
1888, p. 397. 
— ellioti, Giinth. 1. ¢. p. 877, pl. xxv. fig. N. 
. — striatus, Jan, l. c. pl. v. fig. 1 
Distira ornata, Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 411 (1890). 
Head moderate; body moderately elongate. Rostral broader 
than deep; nasals shorter than the frontal, two or three times as 
long as the suture between the prefrontals; frontal longer than 
broad, as long as or a little longer than its distance from the rostral 
or the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; one pre- and 
two or three postoculars; seven or eight upper labials, second 
largest, third and fourth entering’ the eye; two or three superposed 
anterior temporals ; anterior chin-shields in contact, posterior chin- 
shields, if distinct, separated by two or three scales. 35 to 42 
scales round the neck, 40 to 50 round the middle of the body; 
scales juxtaposed and hexagonal in the middle of the body, feebly 
imbricate anteriorly, smooth in the young, with a central tubercle 
or short keel in the adult. Ventrals distinct, but feebly enlarged, 
210-300. Young with blackish cross-bands, tapering on the sides, 
and with one or more lateral series of roundish dark spots; the 
bands may become confluent in some specimens, which are uniform 
blackish olive above and white beneath, 
Total length 1200 millim. ; tail 130. 
From the mouth of the Persian Gulf and the coasts of India and 
Ceylon to New Guinea and North Australia. 
a. Yg. (V. 232). | Indian Ocean. (Type-) 
b. 3 (V. 240). Indian Ocean, Sir E. Belcher [P.}. 
(Type of C. inornata.) 
ec. 2 (V, 265). Muscat. veh Jayakar, Esq, 
d. Her. (V. 285). India. J. Kem . (P}. 
e. 2 (V. 220). Trevandrum, Travancore. a Terra Se oa, 
f. Yg. (V. 218). Ceylon. sit A smith PI | 
g. Yg. (V. 220), Madras. T. CO. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 
Ah. 2 (V.229). Siam. 
