281 



T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



F. Day, Esq. [P.]. 

 J.E.Boileau,Esq.[P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C!]. 



16. HydropMs cantdris. (Pi,a.te XIV.) 



? Liopala fasciata, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 60 (1842). 



Hydrus gracilis, part., Cantor, Cat. Mai. Sept. p. 130 (1847). 



Hydrophis fasciata, part., Gray, Catl-^. 50 (1849). 



cantoris, Gfilnth. JRept. Brit. Ind. p. 374, pi. xxv. fig. U (1864) ; 



Anders. Prop. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 192; F. Mull. Verh. Nat. Ges. 



5(Me/, viii. 1887, p. 278 ; Boetty. Ber. Bench. Ges. 1889, p. 304; 



Bovieng. Faun. Ind., Sept. p. 405 (1864). 



Head very small, narrow ; body long, extremely slender ante- 

 riorly. Eosfcral considerably deeper than broad ; frontal small, 

 longer than broad, hardly as long as its distance from the rostral ; 

 one pree- and one postocular ; a single anterior temporal, followed 

 by a second equally large shield ; six upper labials, third and fourth 

 entering the eye ; two pairs of small chin-shields, in contact with 

 each other. 23 to 25 scales round the neck, 41 to 43 round the 

 body ; scales smooth, rhomboidal and imbricate anteriorly, else- 

 where hexagonal, juxtaposed, each with two or three tubercles one 

 before the other. Ventrals hardly enlarged, 412-456. Body dark 

 olive or blackish anteriorly, with yellowish cross-bands above; 

 posterior part of body olive above, yellowish on the sides ; tail with 

 olive vertical bars ; a blackish streak along the beUy. 



Total length 1100 millim. ; tail 90. 



Bay of Bengal. 



a. (J (V. 440). Pinang. Dr. Cantor. (Type.) 



h. cJ (V. 424). Ganjam. F. Day, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Yg., bad state. Indian Ocean. 



17. HydropMs fasciatus. 



Hydrus fasciatus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. i. p. 240 (1799). 

 Pelamis fasciatus, Merr. Tent. p. 139 (1820). 

 Disteira fasciata, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 55 (1826). 

 Hydrophis gracilis, part., Schleg.Phys. 8erp. ii. p. 507 (1837) ; Bum. 



8f Bibr. vii. p. 1352 (1854) ; Fischer, Abh. Naturw. Samb. iii. 1856, 



p. 54 ; Jan, Icon. Gen. 4l, pi. iv. fig. 2 (1872). 

 chloris (non Baud.), Gilnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 370 (1864); 



Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 191, and 1872, p. 396 ; Fayrer, 



Thanatoph. Ind. pi. xxvii. (1874) ; Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 392 



(1884). 

 Aturia lindsayi, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 61 (1842). 

 Hydrophis obscura, part., Gray, Cat. p. 49 (1849). 

 lindsayi, Gray, I. c. p. 50 ; GUnth. I. c. p. 371 ; Anders. II. cc. 



pp. 396, 191 ; Murray, I. c. 

 atriceps, Giinth. I. c. p. 371, pi. xxv. fig. I. 



