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Skull of Platurus colubrinus. 
1. Platurus laticaudatus. 
Coluber laticaudatus, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 31, pl. xvi. fig. 1 
(1754), and S. N. i. p. 383 (1766). 
Laticauda scutata, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 109 (1768). 
Platurus fasciatus, part., Daud. Rept. vii. p. 226 (1803); Dum. § 
cag vii. p. 1321 (1854); Fischer, Abh. Naturw. Hamb, iii. 1856, 
Hydrophis colubrinus, part., Schley. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 514 (1837). 
Platurus laticaudatus, Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 180 
(1858) ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1877, p. 417; Bouleng. Faun. 
Ind., Rept. p. 395, fig. (1890). 
laticaudatus, var. A, Giinth. Cat. p. 272 (1858). 
——- fischeri, Jan, Rev. & Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 149, and Prodr. 
pl. D (1859) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 356, pl. xxv. fig A (1864) ; 
Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 189; Jan, Icon. Gén. 40, pl. i. 
fig. 2 (1872); Fayrer, Thanatoph. Ind. pl. xix. (1874). 
—— affinis, Anders. 1. c. p. 190. 
Rostral- deeper than broad; no azygous shield on the snout; 
frontal not longer than the parietals; one pre- and two postoculars ; 
seven or eight upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; 
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