AUSTRALIAN SNAKES. 
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Scales ou 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 hut 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 , AFhandl . Naturw ., Hamb. Ill, p. 33. Gunther , Bept. of Frit. 
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. ( Gunther *.) 
Jukes’s Sea Snake. Aipysurus Icevis. 
Aipysurus lsevis, Lacep. Ann. Mus. IV, pp. 197, 210, pi. 56, fig. 3. Gunther, Itepl. 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 Hew Caledonia, New Guinea, &c. 
