396 DR. J. ANDERSON ON PERSIAN, [Mar. 5, 



eye yellowish, with a small black speck below the eye ; a faint 

 blackish green one behind the eve, and another at the angle" of the 

 mouth, continued more or less into each other. Length of body 

 23" ; tail 8" 2'". 



Hub. Shiraz, Persia. 



Chersydrus granulatus, Schneider ; Gthr. /. c. p. 336. 



A specimen of this snake, 36 inches in length, from the sands of 

 the Puri beach. The smaller scales that cover the sides have thin 

 keels, each distinctly terminating in a minute recurved spine. In 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta, there is another specimen of this 

 suake, from the mouth of the Hughli, so that its distribution is from 

 the southern to the northern extremity of the western side of the 

 Bay of Bengal ; and it is probable that it will be found to have a 

 corresponding distribution on the eastern side of the same sea. 



Hydrophis chloris, Daud. ; Gthr. I.e. p. 70. 



The specimen referred to this species measures 2§ inches. The 

 length of the long thin neck is more than one third of the total. 

 There is one postocular ; the third and fourth labials enter the orbit, 

 the former being widely separated from the nasal by the preocular 

 and rather large second labial. Two rather large, nearly equal- 

 sized temporals. Two pairs of chin-shields, in contact with each 

 other. Thirty-three rows of scales round the neck, very fully keeled, 

 with a minute, nearly apical tubercle. Ventrals 495, distant on 

 the neck, where they are about twice as large as the neighbouring 

 scales ; but they are relatively smaller on the tbick part of the trunk. 

 Four anal shields, the external scales being large. The dorsal half 

 of the trunk is greenish olive, and the ventral half yellowish. Fifty- 

 three blackish bands encircle the body, their dorsal halves being very 

 black, broad above and narrowing to the middle line, and the ventral 

 halves very faint on the thick portion of the body, but quite distinct 

 along the ventral line, where they are connected with each other by 

 an obscure black band. On the neck the transverse rings are very 

 black, and so broad that the yellow interspaces are reduced to pairs 

 of round spots, the head and under surface of the neck being quite 

 black. Length 27^ inches. 



Hydrophis gracilis, Shaw. 



I have received a specimen from Puri, with all the characters of 

 this species as diagnosed by Giinther. It has twenty-one rows of 

 bitubercular scales round the neck ; 232 ventrals, those on the neck 

 nearly twice as large as the adjoining scales, while those on the com- 

 pound limb are divided into two halves, placed opposite each other, 

 each half bearing two tubercles as the ordinary scales. 



Length 33f inches, of which the tail is 2f. 



Hydrophis lindsayi, Gray ; Gthr. I. c. p. 371. 



With the exception of having only twenty-six rows of scales 

 round the neck, and 455 ventrals, very few of which are divided, a 



