344 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP 



Bungarus Daudin. 

 Hist. Rept. v., 263. 



40. B. semifasciatus Kuhl. 



One sp. Java. Dr. Ruschenberger- 



One sp. 



41. B. fas ci at us Cantor. Var. B. (Brit. Mus. Catalogue.) 



Three sp. Ceylon. Mr. Cuming. 



One (young) sp. " 



Elaps Schneider. 

 Hist. Amphib. ii., p. 289. 



a. Asiatic. 



42. E. calligaster Weigmann. 



One sp. Philippine Is. Mr. Cuming. 



b. African. 



43. E. lacteus Schn. {Coluber lacleus L. 1754. Col. Hygice Shaw, 1792. 

 Elaps ffygicE, Merr. 1821.) 



One sp. Cape of Good Hope. Garden of Plants. 



c. American. 



*Body with complete isolated rings, with spots between them. 



44. E. fulvius Cuv. 



One sp. ^ r - Baxne. 



One sp". Charleston, S. C. Smithsonian Inst, 



Four sp. ? 



One sp. South Carolina. Jas. Reade. 



One sp. " Dr - Blanding. 



One sp. Texas. Dr. Heermann. 



45. E. ag 1 ee o p e nobis. Head slightly distinct from the body, oval, muz- 

 zle elliptically rounded. Not a slender species. Tail long, one-seventh of the 

 total length. 



Rostral plate small. Anterior frontals very small; posterior frontals nearly 

 as broad as the length of the vertical, and a little longer than the superciliaries. 

 Vertical small, two-fifths of its length between the occipitals. Scales in fifteen 

 longitudinal rows. Rings black, three scales (in a straight line,) and three or 

 four gastrosteges in width. Spaces between, five or five and a half scales wide, 

 with a delicate light brown ground color, but divided by a vermillion ring, three 

 scales wide. This is wider on the belly and adjacent to the black, except when 

 occasionally separated by a yellow gastrostege. In the middle of the vermillion 

 is a series of elongate black spots one scale wide, sometimes confluent into a 

 band, not reaching the gastrosteges. A black collar involves the tips of the 

 occipitals, half the last superior and inferior labial, and the first three gastros- 

 teges. In front of this a baud of delicate brown includes the occipitals and 

 extends to the labials ; the latter are yellow. The inferior labials (except a 

 black spot on the second and third,) and the inframaxillaries, are also yellow. 

 The rostral, and anterior frontals are brownish yellow, (perhaps shaded with 

 red in life). The rest of the head, extending backward from the first and second 

 superior labials, to the postoculars, and anterior edge of occipitals, is black. 

 There is a spot of the same color on the line between the occipital plate3. 



Gastrosteges 207, anal one, urosteges 52, first seven undivided. 



Total length 31 inches. Tail 4 inches, 6 lines. 



One specimen, brought by Dr. Jno. L. Le Conte from Honduras. 



A beautiful species, related to fulvius, apiatus, tener, etc, 

 **Body with rings at equal distances, without spots between. 



46. E. c i r c i n a 1 i s D. $ B. 



One sp. West Indies. Mr. Engstrom. 



Two sp. ? ? rr . 



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