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Show 1896.] BATRACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 893 90. ENHYDRINA VALAKADIEN, Boie. Hydrus schistosus, Cantor, p. 132. Enhydrina valakadien, Boul. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 302. There is a specimen in the British Museum from Penang from Dr. Cantor. Hab. From the Persian Gulf, along the coasts of India and Burma to the Malay Archipelago and Papuasia. 91. AIPYSURUS EVDOUXI, Gray. Aipysurus eydouxii, Boul. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 304. Boettger mentions three specimens said to have been caught at Singapore (Zool. Anz., 1892, p. 420). I obtained one specimen, a male, from Sourabaya, Java, and kept it alive in a tin of sea water for about a month, when it died through au accident. It was gentle when handled, never attempting to bite. It could move fast, but awkwardly, on dry land, and sometimes would crawl out of the water of its ow7n accord. The colours in life are very handsome-above dark olive-brown, with bright yellow transverse stripes, tbe stripes and edges of the brown scales outlined in black; beneath bright yellow. Ventrals 134. Length 559 mm, Bab. Seas of Malay Archipelago. 92. PLATURUS COLUBRINUS, Schn. Laticauda scutata, Cantor, p. 125. Platurus colubrinus, Boul. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 308 (skull fig. p. 307). There is a specimen in the British Museum from Penang from Dr. Cantor. Blanford mentions this species (Platurus scutatus) from Singapore (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 215). Hab. From the Bay of Bengal to the China Sea and the West South Pacific. Subfamily ELAPINJE. 93. BUNGARUS FASCIATUS, Schn. Bungarus fasciatus, Cantor, p. 113; Boul. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 366. Cantor mentions this species from Penang and Prov. Wellesley, and Stoliczka found it in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley. Blanford mentions it from Singapore. Hab. India, Burma, Southern China, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. 94. BUNGARUS CANDIDUS, L. Bungarus candidus, Cantor, p. 113; Boul. Cat. Snakes, iii. p. 368 (skull fig. p. 365). Cantor mentions this species from Kedah, and there are five |