58 NEW- YORK FAUNA. 



FAMILY ELAPSID.E. 



With venomous fangs, and permanently fixed ; other teeth in the upper maxillary, and on the palate. 

 Head not distinct from the body. Jaws not dilatable. No fosset between the eye and nostril. 



Genus Elaps. Schneider. Head scarcely larger than the body ; no fosset between the eye and nostril ; 



upper jaw with a fixed and permanently erect poison fang. Resembles Coluberidae. 

 E.fulvius. (Holbrook, Herpet. Vol. 2, pi. 18.) Red, encircled with broad black bands bordered 



with yellow. Abdominal plates, 212; caudal, 32. Length twenty inches. Carolina, Louisiana, 



Upper Missouri. 



