180 ON THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF SERPENTS. 



tail they are edged with black. Sent from S. America. 

 PL 220 + lOQ.—See Jameson's Journal. ^-'Fr.] 



B. African species, only one is known. 



5. Elaps Hygeije. Easily to be distinguished by the 

 artificial character drawn from the presence of an undivided 

 nasal plate, pierced by the nostrils ; vertical rather elon- 

 gated ; six labials ; abdominal plates less broad than 

 ordinarv. S. 200 + 28. Of small size ; inliabits the 

 Cape ; tints of great beauty ; yellowish ; above of a vivid 

 red, ornamented witli black bands, sometimes confluent ; 

 below mottled with l^lack. 



C. Asiatic species. 



6. Elaps Collaris. Perhaps identical with an Elaps 

 said to be found in the Philip])ines. Form of Elaps Lem- 

 niscatus, but with a short, tliick, and depressed head ; the 

 sixth vertical plate wide, and touching the occipitals. 

 Deep broAMi ; below marked with red spots, of which the 

 angles are continued on the sides ; neck ornamented with 

 a collar. S. 229 + 17. 



7. Elaps trimaculatus, from India. Of very small 

 size ; form extremely delicate ; tail every^vhere of equal 

 thickness ; above of a clear broAvn, with black dorsal ray, 

 accompanied by other narrow rays on the sides. Head, 

 tip of the tail, and anus black ; below yellowish ; tail 

 white, speckled with black. S. 241 +32. 



8. Elaps FURCATus. 1 3 rows of scales : body filiform. 

 S. 255 + 22. Head of same diameter as the trunk, and 

 narrow ; above of a very dark brown ; a dorsal ray, 

 bifurcated on the head, of a fine yellowy wiiich passes into 

 red on the tail ; a w^iite ray on the sides. Above a lively 

 green, with dark transverse bands. Size about 15 inches. 

 Inhabits Java, and is also found in the peninsula of Ma- 

 lacca and in Sumatra, where it forms a climatal variety. 



9. Elaps bivirgatus. A very beautiful and rare 

 species, scarcely of the thickness of the little finger, w^th a 

 length of three or four feet ; body extremely slender, 

 cylindrical, and all of equal thickness ; tail longer than 

 ordinary ; head nearly of same diameter wdth the body ; 

 above of violet-blue, passing towards the tail into purple ; 

 sides marked with a white ray, undulating and narrow ; 



