4CWOCHORDE. 



<tnd is handsomely coloured. It is extremely venomous, a fowl that had been bitten 

 by a Chittul dying within five minutes after receiving the injury. The ground colour of 

 this Snake is yellow, and the body is covered with an irregular row of black rings. Some 

 black bands also cross the neck 



In the ACKOCHOEDE, sometimes called the Oular Carron, the tail, instead of being 

 flattened, is rounded, conical, and very short, diminishing in diameter in a very sudden 

 manner. It is a native of Java, and is said to be wholly vegetarian in its diet, the 

 stomach having been found to contain nothing but half-digested fruit. The flesh of the 

 Acrochorde is said to be excellent. 



Upon the head are a number of little scales, each of which is divided into three 

 ridges. The creature is in the habit of distending its body with air to a very great 

 extent, and when it so acts, the scales separate from each other and make the head and 

 body look as if they were covered with tubercles. The general colour is brown in the 

 adult, and brown banded and streaked with a darker hue in the young. 



The CHERSYDEUS (Chersydrus granuldtus) is a rather curious aquatic Serpent, found in 

 Asia and most common in Java. It is sometimes called the Banded Acrochorde, but 

 wrongly so, as its tail, instead of being round and conical, is flat, compressed, and sword- 

 like in shape. It inhabits the bottoms of marine creeks and the mouths of rivers. The 

 Javanese call it Oular Limpe. The body of this reptile is covered with small scales, each 

 boldly keeled in the centre, and its colour is black and white arranged in alternate rings. 



The EEPETON, or HEEPETON as the name is sometimes written, is a truly curious 

 reptile, of no great size, but bearing a pair of appendages on the head that seem to serve 

 no recognised purpose save to bewilder zoologists. The muzzle of this creature is covered 

 with scales, and on each side of it rises the curious appendage which is seen in the 

 illustration. This remarkable organ is soft, but completely covered with scales and 

 defended by them. Of its habits nothing appears to be known, and even its country in 

 dubious. Its colour is pale brown streaked with white. 



