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Length of the head, ft. 0| inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 1 lOf 



Ditto ditto tail, If 



2 ft. 0} inch. 



Circumference of the trunk 1 inch. 



Elaps intestinalis,* (Laurenti,) Var. 



Syn. — Maticora lineata, Gray : 111. Ind. Zool. 



Elaps furcatus, Schneider, Var. apud Schlegel, Cantor. 



Young and Adult. — Head ahove light chestnut ; lips and throat 

 yellowish white, upper lips spotted with black ; from the hiudhead to 

 the tip of the tail a vermilion line, on each side of which a narrow, 

 serrated, black .line. On the nearest two longitudinal series of scales 

 the ground colour appears as a reddish light grey longitudinal line, 

 beneath bordered by an ecmally broad black line, under which a narrow 

 buff-coloured line, bordered by a black serrated line, the teeth of which 

 are directed downwards, wedged in between the lateral margins of the 

 scuta and scutella. Scuta alternately pale citrine and iridescent black, 

 the latter colour occupying three to four scuta together, while the 

 former rarely appears on more than two. Tail above with two or 

 three distant black transversal bands ; beneath vermilion, with a con- 

 tinuation of the superior transversal bands. Iris black, pupil circular ; 

 tongue black. 



Scuta 223 to 238 ; Scutella 24 to 26. 

 Habit. — Pinang, Singapore, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Sumatra. 



Excepting the colours, this variety otherwise perfectly agrees with 



E. intestinalis. The neck is covered by 15, the rest of the trunk by 



13 longitudinal series of smooth, not imbricate rhombic scales. It is 



of no uncommon occurrence in the hills of Pinang, at Malacca, ami at 



Singapore. The largest individual was of the following dimensions : 



Length of the head, ft. Of inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 1 10 



Ditto ditto tail, If 



1 ft. 11| inch. 

 Circumference of the trunk If inch. 



* Syn. Seba II, PI. 2, Fig. l.—Aspis mtestinaRs, Laufenti. — Cotuber intestinalis, 

 Gmelin.— Russell 11, PI. 19. — Elaps furcatus, Schneider. — Coluber intestinalis, Shaw. — 

 Vipera f areata, Daudin.— Elaps furcatus, Schneider, anud Wagler, Schlegel. 



Habit.— JlivB, Malwah, (Central India.) 



A collection ol Reptiles, which Mr. J. W. Grant obtained from Saugor, Malwah, 

 contained a single specimen. 



