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86. MICRURUS CORALUNUS (Wied) 



Elaps corallinns Wied, Nova Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol., vol. 10, pt. 1, 

 1820, p. 108; Abbild. Naturg. Brasil., pt. 6, 1824, pi. 4. 



Elaps dumerilii Jan, Rev. Mag. ZooL, 1858, p. 522; Icon. Ophid., pt. 42, 

 1872, pi. 1, fig. 3. 



Elaps risei Jan, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1858, p. 525, pi. B.; Icon. Ophid., pt. 42, 

 1872, pi. 6, fig. 3. 



Elaps corallinus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1896, p. 420. 



The United States National Museum has 29 specimens of this 

 very widespread species. Having carefully examined this material 

 I was led into comparing it with those specimens in the Museum 

 of Zoology of the University of Michigan and in the Carnegie Museum 

 at Pittsburgh as well as those in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 supplemented with a few specimens recently received from both 

 the Instituto do Butantan and the Museu Pauhsta. The total 

 number of specimens examined was 101, distributed as follows: 



United States National Museum 29 



University of Michigan Museum of Zoology 2 



Carnegie Museum (Griffin's material) 8 



Museum of Comparative Zoology (Inst. Butantan and Mus. Paulista) 62 



Total 101 



The countries to which those speciments belong were the following: 



Trinidad 21 



Venezuela 1 



Colombia 13 



Ecuador 7 



Peru 6 



Brazil 51 



South America 1 



Unknown 1 



Total 101 



The most important characteristics of those specimens may be 

 tabulated as follows: 



