304 COLUBRID. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
A. Seales in 17 rows; head shielded above. 
Six upper labials, fourth entering the eye.. 1. eydouwii, p. 304, 
Two or three upper labials, second covering } 
nearly the whole lip ..........6..05: 2. annulatus, p. 304, 
B. Scales in 19 to 25 rows. 
Upper head-shields distinct, more or less’ 
broken up ; scales in 21 to 25 rows.... 3. levis, p. 305. 
Head covered with small scales; scales in 
19 TOWD sa:ecc 0.00.5 0's dies wee genes 4. australis, p. 305. 
1. Aipysurus eydouxii. 
Tomogaster eydouxii, Gray, Cat. p. 59 (1849). 
Thelen ne anguilleformis, Schmidt, Abh. Naturw. Hamb. ii. 1852, 
’ 1 
Had tecmaeitacnts, Schmidt, 1. c. p. 77. 
Aipysurus levis (non Lacép.), Guichen. Voy. Péle Sud, Zool. iii. 
.p. 21, pl. vi. (1853); Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 1826, pl. lxxvii 5. 
fig. 4 (1854) ; Fischer, Abh, Naturw. Hamb. iit. 1856, p-. 82; Jan, 
Icon. Gén. 40, pl. ii. fig. 1 (1872). 
—— margaritophorus, leek. Nat. Tydschr, Nederl. Ind. xvi. 1858,. 
49. 
= anguilleformis, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 357 (1864) ; Boettg. 
Zool, Anz. 1892, p. 420. 
Eye a little longer than its distance from the mouth. Rostral a 
little broader than deep ; upper head-shields regular; frontal large,. 
once and two thirds to twice as long as broad, longer than its 
distance from the end of the snout, as long as or a little longer 
than the parietals; nasal in contact with or narrowly separated 
from the preocular ; one pre-and two postoculars ; temporals 142 
or 242; six upper labials, fourth entering the eye ; anterior chin- 
shields shorter than the posterior, which are separated by an azygous 
shield. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Ventrals 140-142. Dark 
brown above, with cross-bands of yellow, black-edged scales, often 
broken up on the vertebral line; these bands widening towards 
the belly, which is yellow, with or without dark brown spots. 
Total length 490 millim.; tail 70. 
Coasts of Singapore, Java, and the Philippines. 
(V. 142). Indian Ocean. (yPe.) 
b. 8 | (V. 149), Java. Bleeker. (Type of 
Ai. margaritophorus.) 
ec. 2 (V. 140). Java. 
2. Aipysurus annulatus. 
Emydocephalus annulatus, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 822, and 
Sn. Austral, p. 92 (1869). 
— tuberculatus, Krefft, J. c. pp. 322, 98. 
A360, p 8 ee Bavay, Mém. Soc. Linn, Norm. xv. no, 5, 
