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fringed with hydroid colonies like grass. A specimen of Dis- 
tira viperina was foun have attached to its body the calcare- 
ous skeleton of a polyzoon colony (Membranipora ?). 
The way in which sea-snakes behave when thrown ashore, 
and their habit while in captivity, are not uninteresting. Once 
out of their native element, they generally become quite helpless and 
appear blind, except Distira viperina, ‘They are unable to progress 
on land because of the want of big ventrals. None of these ever 
are called Molukadien pamb: also Kodal nagom (meaning sea- 
on The long and banded ones are called Kadal  sarat 
PPM POPB LOL i. 
