AUSTRALIAN: SNAKES. 91 
Seales on the highest part of the body in seventeen series, perfectly 
smooth; ventral shields, 142. Tail covered laterally with scales similar 
to those of the trunk, and terminating in a large shield-like scale; shields 
of the head not, or but little, subdivided; upper parts brownish, with 
cross bands of yellow black-edged scales; head uniformly blackish. An 
older example (described by Schmidt) is yellowish, with numerous rhombic, 
rather irregular, confluent brown spots on the back. 
Habitat, Coast of Java and Australian Seas ? 
Brown SEA Snake. Aipysurus fuscus. 
Aipysurus fuscus, Fischer, Abhandl. Naturw., Hamb. III, p.38. Gtinther, Rept. of Brit. 
India, p. 358. 
Scales in 19 rows. 
Abdominals, 157 to 166. 
Total length, 39 inches. 
Scales on the highest part of the body in nineteen rows; those of 
the outer series and the ventral shields with small tubercles, which are 
more distinct in old individuals than in young ones; ventral shields, 157- 
165-166 ; scales on the side of the tail larger than those on the body ; 
shields of the head much subdivided in old examples; either uniformly 
brown, or each scale and ventral shield with a large brownish-black spot 
near the hind margin. 
This species belongs to the fauna of the Australian seas. (Ginther.) 
JUKES’s SEA SNAKE. <Aipysurus levis. 
Aipysurus levis, Lacép. Ann. Mus. IV, pp. 197, 210, pl. 56, fig. 3. Gunther, Rept. of 
Brit. India, p. 358. 
Scales in 21 rows. 
Abdominals, 151 to 154. 
Total length, 60 inches. 
Scales on the highest part of the body in twenty-one rows, perfectly 
smooth; ventral shields, 151-(152)-154; scales on the side of the tail 
elevated, band-like ; terminal scale of the tail very large; shields of the 
head much subdivided in old examples, which are uniform brown. 
Habitat, Coast of New Caledonia, New Guinea, ‘&e. 
