106 ON A NEW SEA-SNAKE FROM BORNEO* [Feb* loj 



LiTEBATUEE CiTED. 



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3. Description of a new Sea-Snake from Borneo. 

 By G. A. BoTJLENGER, F.R.S. 



[Eeceived January 8, 1898.] 

 (Plate IX.) 



Htdrophis PLOWEEi, sp. nov. (Plate IX.) 



Head very small ; anterior part of body very slender, its dia- 

 meter about one tbird tbe depth of tbe posterior part. Eostral 

 broader than deep ; frontal once and a balf as long as broad, as long 

 as its distance from the rostral, mucb shorter than the parietals ; one 

 prse- and one postocular ; a single anterior temporal ; six or seven 

 upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; two pairs of 



