Sree 
Echidna zebra (Shaw). Yay -Sb- 
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Head 10 to 113/5; depth 15 to 15¢; snout 62 to 6%:in 
head; gape 2 3/5 to 2 =; interorbital 4 2/5 to 6%. Body 
moderately compressed; tail 2 in combined head and trunk. 
Head width 2 to 3 in its length, occipital region quite swol- 
len convexly. Snout obtuse, length 1 to 1g its width. Eye 
about midway in gape, 1z in snout. Lips quite thick, soft 
or fleshy, smooth. Teeth molars, upper median in hour-glars 
like area, only vomerine or hind portion longer; this median 
area of rather large broad rounded molars, with somewhat 
flattened surfaces, and some small teeth scattered irregular- 
ly along edges; above separated from conerins teeth, below 
eye short row of small irregular biserial molars on each side; 
mandibulars like vomerine row, in ebout 4 slightly irregular 
rows, most of 2 inner rows much larger than outer. Mouth 
closes completely, horizontal, though only symphyseal teeth 
in opposition with maxillary; lower jaw slightly shorter. 
Front nostril in short tube little nearer snout tip than eye; 
hind nostril in slight cutaneous tube, its length about half 
of front nasal tube, above and little before eye. Interorbital 
greatly convex, declivous. Gill-opening about long as eye. 
Dorsal obsolete, begins behind vent, thick. Anal less de- 
veloped. 
Color in alcohol: deep dusky brown or nearly blackish, 
transversely barred with many narrow sharply and evenly de- 
fined white cross-bars, many meeting completely. Cross-bars 
usually little narrower on back, ground color at edges nar- 
rowly darker, though slightly wider on belly and abdomen, 
