LATICAUDA 



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with black or brown, the width of the black bars half to three- 

 fourths the width of the interspaces. Two Sulu specimens dif- 

 fer from the others examined in being greenish yellow with 

 brown bands. It is significant that these two specimens have 

 59 bars across body. Boulenger gives the limit of scale varia- 

 tion as follows : Ventrals, 195 to 240, average, 217 ; subcaudals, 

 30 to 45; scale rows, 21 to 25; black bands, 28 to 54. 



Table .50. — Measurements and scale counts of Laticauda cohibrina 



(Schneider.) 



« Fused. 



