308 COLUBRID^E. 



temporals 1 + 2. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals not keeled, 210-240 ; 

 subcaudals 25-45. Olive above, yellowish beneath, with 29-48 

 black annuli which are as broad as or broader than the interspaces 

 between them. 



Total length 970 millim. ; tail 90. 



From the Bay of Bengal to the Chinese Sea and the Western 

 South Pacific Ocean. 



a. (5' (V. 222 ; 0. 43). Bengal. Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



6. Hgr. (V. 231 ; 0. 43). Chartaboum. 



c-d. 5 (V. 233 ; C. 30) & Loo Choo Islands. H. Pryer, Esq. [P.]. 



yg.(V.232; 0.31). 



e. Hgr. (V. 231; 0. 42). New Gmnea. 



/. Hgr. (V. 223 ; 0. 31). New Guinea? Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



g. Hgr. (V. 210; 0. 32). Duke of York Is. Eev. G. Brown [C.]. 



h. Hgr. (V. 230 ; 0. 32). Fiji Is. H.M.S. ' Herald.' 



i. Hgr. (V. 224; 0. 35). Aneiteum, New Heb- J. Macgillivray, Esq, 



rides. [C.]. 



k. S (V. 237 ; C. 45). Australia. G. Kreift, Esq. [P.]. 



I. (S (V. 234 ; C. 44"). Tasmania. Haslar Collection. 



m. $ (V. 229; 0.33). S.Pacific. Museum of Economic 



Geology. 



2. Flaturus colubrinus. 



Hydrus colubrinus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. i. p. 238 (1799). 

 Platurus fasciatus, part., Daud. Rept. vii. p. 226, pL Ixxxv. fig. 1 



(1803) ; Bum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 1321 (1854). 

 Hydrophis colubrinus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 614, pi. xviii. 



figs. 21 & 22 (1837). 

 Laticaxida scutata, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 125 (1847). 

 Platurus colubrinus, Girard, U.S. Explor. Mxped., Herp. p. 178 



(1858) ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1877, p. 418 ; Fischer, Jahrh. Hamb. 



Wiss. Anst. V. 1888, p. 18; Bowleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 395 



(1890). 



laticaudatus, var. B, Giinth. Cat. p. 272 (1858). 



fasoiatus, Jan, JReo. Sf Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 149, and Icon. Gen, 



40, pi. i. fig. 1 (1872). 

 scutatus, Giinth. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 356 (1864). 



Eostral deeper than broad ; an azygous shield between the pree- 

 frontals and sometimes one or two between the internasals ; frontal 

 as long as or slightly shorter than the parietals ; one prae- and two 

 postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2 (rarely 2 + 2) ; six o'c seven upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye. Scales in 21 to 25 rows. 

 Ventrals not keeled, 195-240 ; subcaudals 50-45. Olive above, 

 yellowish below, with 28 to 54 black annuli, which are as wide as 

 the interspaces between them or narrower ; some or all of the annuli 

 may be interrupted on the belly. 



Total length 1270 millim. ; tail 125. 



Erom the Bay of Bengal to the Chinese Sea and the Western 

 South Pacific Ocean. 



a-h, o-d S (V. 229 ; C. 45), India. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



S> (V. 235 ; C. 33), & hgr. 

 (V. 202, 240; C. 42, 34). 



