HYDROPHIS CHLORIS. Ill 



decurrent dusky bands. The length of the tail is about four inches ; 

 the scales which cover it are of a square or lozenge form, imbricate, 

 and marked by an almost double carina ; the scales on the body 

 are chiefly hexagonal, and carinated in the same manner. Dr. 

 Shaw justly supposes it to be of the poisonous kind, as one of 

 the teeth, on each side in the upper jaw is larger than the rest, and 

 on being examined with a lens is evidently tubular, the slit towards 

 the end being much longer in proportion than in that of the 

 rattle-snake. It is found in the Indian seas. 



HYDROPHIS NIGROCINCTUS. 



Black-banded JVater-Snake. 



Spec. Char. Body olive green above ; yellow be- 

 neath, with about fifty-eight black or dark blue bands 

 encircling the trunk ; tail obtuse, with nine circular 

 bands of the same colour. 



Keril pattee ; Russel, Ind. Serp. ii. t. 10. 



This snake inhabits the saline waters of a river near Calcutta 

 which intersects the country of Bengal, and is called Sunderbunds. 

 The Indians call it keril-pattec, and it appears very venomous. A 

 fowl bitten in the thigh by it was seized with convulsions, at the 

 end of five minutes, and in two minutes more expired. 



HYDROPHIS CHLORIS. 



Bhieisk-grcen fVater-Snake. 



Spec. Char. Body dark blue, intermixed with green ; 

 neck crossed with bands of greenish yellow; and 

 broader bands of the same colour across the sides and 

 tail. 



Shootur Sun \ Russcl, Ind. Serp. t. 7. 



