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seen other specimens from Bombay and Karachi, but it is an uncommon 

 form. Analogous to variety D(6) of cyanocincta. 

 6(a) A form intermediate between these two groups is to be seen in a speci- 

 men in the British Museum from Madras presented by Mr. Henderson. 

 In this there are complete bands anteriorly, and dorsal bars posteriorly 

 Analogous to variet}^ A (c) of cyanocincta. 

 Group (B) with transverse dorsal bars. 



Distira cyanocincta (Daudin). 



"Chittul," Russell, Ind. Serp., 1801, ii, pi. ix. 

 Hydrophis cyanocincta, Dana 1 ., Rept., 1803, v ib P- 383. 

 ? „ „ Peters in Mon. Berl. Acad., 1872, p. 852, pi. 1, fig. 2. 



,, ,, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 367. 



,, ,, Fayrer, Thanatoph. Ind., 1874, pi. xxiii. 



,, ,, Ewart, Pois. Snakes Ind., 1878, pi. 17. 



? ,, ,, Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, 1884, p. 391. 



„ tuberculata, Anderson in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1871, pt. 2, p. 18. 



,. ,, Murray, loc. cit., p. 393. 



,, dayanus, Stoliczka in Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 89. 



,, subannulata, Gray, Cat., 1849, P- 54- 



,, aspera, Gray, Cat., p. 55. 



,, ,, Giinther, loc. cit., p. 365. 



crassicollis, Anderson, loc. cit., p. 19. 

 ,, ,, Fayrer, loc. cit., pi. xxii. 



., ,, Ewart, Pois. Snakes Ind., 1878, pi. 16. 



,, trachyceps, Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus., 1868, p. 70. 



,, phipsoni, Murray in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, ii, p. 32 and pi. 



? ,, westermanni, Jan, Icon. Gen., 1872, 39, pi. v, fig. 1. 



,, doliata, Gray, Cat., 1849, p. 51. 



Aturia belcheri, Gray, Cat. (1849), p. 46. 

 ' Hydrophis belcheri, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., 1864, P- 3^4- 

 Distira belcheri, Boulgr., Cat. iii, 1896, p. 296. 

 ? Hydrophis frontalis, Jan, loc. cit., 39, pi. v, fig. 2 (non Boulgr.). 



sublaevis, Gray in Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 62, and Cat., 1849, p. 52. 

 elegans, Giinther , loc. cit., p. 369, pi. xxv, figs. K & K'. 

 semperi, Garman in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1881, p. 85. 

 paciticus, Boulgr., Cat., 1886, iii, p. 278, pi. xii, fig. 2. 

 kingii. Boulgr., Cat., 1896, iii, p. 276. 



striatus, Schlegel, Phys. Serp., 1837, P- 502, pi. xviii, figs. 4 and 5. 

 Aturia elegans, Gray in Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 63. 

 Chitulia fasciata, Gray, Cat., 1829, P- 5^- 

 Distira belcheri, Boulgr., Cat., iii, p. 296. 

 ,, semperi, Boulgr.. Cat., iii, p. 292. 



