212. AIPYSURUS. 305 
Head more or less regularly shielded, the shields granulate ; a 
large frontal; supraocular undivided ; one pre- and two postoculars ; 
second upper and lower labial extremely large, covering nearly the 
whole upper and lower lip. Scales in 17 rows, rough with five or 
more tubercles. Ventrals 135-144. Purplish brown or black, 
some of the scales lighter or forming whitish annuli. 
Total length 800 millim. 
Loyalty Islands. 
3. Aipysurus levis. 
— levis, Lacép. Ann. Mus. iv. 1804, pp. 197, 210, pl. lvi. 
g.3; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 358 (1864). 
Stephanohydra fusca, Tschudi, Arch. f. Nat. 1837, p. 331, pl. viii. ; 
ag) Cat. p. 60 (1849) ; Gunth. Cat. p. 272 (1858). 
Hydrophis pelamidoides, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 512 (1837), 
_and Abbild. p. 115 (1844). 
Hypotropis jukesii, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. xviii. 1846, p. 284, 
and in Jukes, Voy. Fly, ii. p. 333, pl. 1. (1847). 
Aipysurus fuliginosus, Dum. § Bibr. vii. p. 1327, pl. lxxvii. d. 
figs. 1 & 2 (1854); Fescher, Abh. Naturw. Haméb, iii. 1856, p. 33 ; 
Bavay, Mém. Soc. Linn, Norm. xv. no. 5, 1869, p. 33; Jan, Icon. 
Gén. 40, pl. i. fig. 3 (1872); Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom, (7) i. 
1877, p. 112. 
fuscus, Fischer, 1. c. 
—— duboisii, Bavay, 1. ¢. 
Eye shorter than its distance from the mouth. Head with 
distinct shields above, which are more or less divided and often 
very irregular; rostral broader than deep; frontal a little longer 
than broad, often longitudinally bisected ; supraocular divided into 
two; one or two prew- and two or three postoculars ; eight to ten 
upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye if not broken 
up; chin-shields small or indistinct. Sales in 21 to 25 rows, 
smooth, vertebrals often more or less enlarged. Ventrals 137-162. 
Brown, uniform or with small darker spots. 
Total length 1720 millim. ; tail 170. 
Pacific Ocean, from Celebes to the Loyalty Islands. 
a, Ad., skin (V. 143). Arafura Sea. J. J. Walker, Esq. 
: ERT: 
b. d (V. 148). Kei Is, — Capt. Langen [P.]. 
ce. d (V. 146). New Guinea, Mrs. Stanley at 
d. 2 (V. 151). Torres Straits. Mr. Comrie [C.]}. 
e. 2 (V. 158). Baudin I. J. J. Walker, Esq. 
[P.]. 
f. Yg. (V. 187). ae teat et Queens- Museum Godeffroy. 
S and. 
g. 2, skin(V.151). Darnley I. ‘ J.B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 
e of Hypotropis jukesi. 
h. 3 (V. 155). —-? oe ssh : 
z. Skull of g. 
4, Aipysurus australis. 
Aipysurus fuscus (non Tschudi), Giinth. Rept. Brit, Ind. p. 358 
1864); Krefft, Sn. Austral. p. 91 (1869). 
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