HURRIA 111 



Hurria FISCHER, Zoognosia ed. 3, 1 (1813) 65. 



Hurrianus Rafinesque, Anal. Nat. (1815) 77. 



Strephon Goldfusz, Handb. Zool. 2 (1820) 151. 



Cerbei-us Cuvier, Reg. Anim. 2d ed. 2 (1829) 81; Gray, Zool. Misc. 

 (1842) 64; Cat. Vip. Snakes (1849) 63; Dumeril and Bibron, 

 Erp. Gen. 7 (1854) 977; GuNTHER, Rept. Brit. India (1864) 278;- 

 Boulenger, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. (1890) 374; Cat. Snakes 

 Brit. Mus. 3 (1896) 15; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 

 110; Casto de Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 431. 



"Maxillary teeth 12 to 17, followed, after a very short inter- 

 space, by two slightly enlarged, grooved teeth; anterior mandib- 

 ular teeth longest. Head small, not very distinct from neck; 

 eye small, with vertically elliptic pupil; snout covered with 

 shields ; parietal shields more or less broken up into scales ; 

 nasals in contact behind the rostral, semidivided, the cleft ex- 

 tending from the nostril to the first or second labial; two inter- 

 nasals (rarely united) ; loreal present. Body cylindrical^ scales 

 striated and keeled, without pits, in 23 to 29 rows ; ventrals 

 rounded. Tail moderate, slightly compressed; subcaudals in 

 two rows." (Boulenger.) 



Two species are found in the Philippines, the widely distri- 

 buted Hurria rynchops (Schneider) and the rare Hurria mi- 

 crole'pis (Boulenger) ; the latter appears to be confined to the 

 Philippines. 



Key to the Philippine species of Hurria Daudin. 



a'. Four lower labials touching first chin shields; scales in 23 to 



27 rows; strongly keeled; ventrals, 132 to 160. 



H. rynchops (Schneider) (p. 111)- 

 f^^ Three lower labials touching first chin shields; scales in 29 rows, 



feebly keeled; ventrals, 163 to 165-- H. microlepis (Boulenger) (p. 114) 



These snakes are more aquatic than terrestrial in habits. 

 They are somewhat poisonous, but certainly not deadly poi- 

 sonous to man. 



HURRIA RYNCHOPS (Schneider) 



Hydriis rynchops Schneider, Hist, Amph. 1 (1799) 246. 



EJaps boxformis Schneider, Hist. Amph. 2 (1801) 301. 



Hydrus cincreus Shaw, Gen. Zool. 3 (1802) 567. 



Hurria schneideriana Daudin, Nat. Hist. Rept. 5 (1803) 281. 



Hurria bilineata Daudin, Nat, Hist. Rept! 5 (1803) 284. 



Cohiber cerebus Daudin, Nat. Hist. Rept. 7 (1803) 167. 



Homalopsis cerberus Fitzinger, Neue Class. Rept. (1826) 55, 



Python elapiformis Meerem, Tent. Syst. Amph. (1820) 89. 



Python rhynchops Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph. (1820) 90. 



Cerberus rhynchops Gunther, Rept. Brit. India (1864) 279; Proc. 



Zool. Soc. London (1879) 78; Boulenger, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. 



(1890) 374; Cat. Snakes Brit, Mus. 3 (1896) 16; Boettger, Ber, 



Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 110. 



