Fig. 81.—Skull of Distira.
(After G. A. Boulenger, op. cit.)
D. cyanocincta.—Greenish-olive above, with dark olive or black cross-bars or annuli, broader on the back, and sometimes joined by a black band along the belly, or yellowish, with a black vertebral stripe and a few bars on the neck.
Total length, 1,500 millimetres; tail 140.
Habitat: From the Persian Gulf and the coasts of India to China, Japan, and Papuasia.
D. jerdonii.—Olive above, yellowish on the belly, with black cross-bands forming complete rings in young and half-grown specimens; a black spot sometimes present between each pair of annuli.
Total length, 910 millimetres; tail 100.
Habitat: Bay of Bengal, Straits of Malacca, Borneo.
(7) Enhydris.
Two large poison-fangs, and 2-4 small feebly grooved teeth. Body short and stout; scales hexagonal or squarish, juxtaposed, disappearing almost completely on the belly.
E. curtus.—Above with dark transverse bands, broadest in the middle; end of tail black.