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Southern Cliina); Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.. Ill, 1896, p. 399 ^part: forma 



{ypica, Assam; Pegu; Formosa; South China"); Prop. Zool. Soc. F/mdon, 



1899, p. 1G6 (Kuatun, Fokien, China). 

 1854. Flaps pcrsonatns Blytii. Journ. Assiat. Soo. Bengal, XXIII, no. ?>, ]>. 298 



(type-locality, Assam). 

 1861. Elaps macddlandi REiNriAROT, Vid. Meddel. Xaturh., For. Kjoebenhavn, 



1860, p. 247 (part: Assam). 

 1864. Callophis annularis Guenther, Kept. Brit. India, p. 350, pi. xxiv, fig. i 



(type-locality, "India")." 



CalliopMs univirgatus,^ which is said to differ only in coloration, 

 liaving a narrow black line down the middle of the back and no regu- 

 lar dorsal crossbars, is the western re])resentative of the present 

 species. It inhabits Sikkim and Nepal, apparently to the exclusion 

 of typical 0. macclellandii. 



Description (figs. 323-324). — Adult imde; British Museum; For- 

 mosa; R. Swinhoe, collector. Rostral barely visible from above; 



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Figs. 323-324.— Calliopios macclellandii. (From Boulenger, Fauna Brit. India, TIept., r. 383.) 

 .323, TOP OF head: .324, side of head. 



internasals nearly entering nostrils; nostril in posterior edge of a 

 large nasal, followed by a somewhat smaller postnasal; prefrontals 

 large, broadly in contact with supraoculars; frontal about as long 

 as its distance from tip of snout, slightly shorter than parietals; one 

 large preocular in contact with postnasal, prefrontal, supraocular, 

 and third supralabial; two postoculars; temporals 1 + 1; 7 supra- 

 labials, third and fourth entering eye, first small, third large, as large 



n In Boulenger's catalogue (III, p. 399) it is stated that the type in British Museum 

 is fi-om South China and presented by Mr. J. C. Bowring. 



'' 1858. Elaps univirgatus Guenther, Cat. Col. Sn. Brit. Miis., p. 231 (type-hn-al- 



ity, Nepal; types in British Mnseum; Hodgson, collector). — Callophis 



iinivirgata Guenther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859 (p. 83, pi. xvn 



Nepal). 



186 1. Elaps macddlandi Rkiniiardt, Vid. Meddel. Naturh. For. Kjoebenhavn, 



I860, p. 247 (part; Darjeeling). 

 1861. Callophis macdellandii Guenther, Proc Zool. Soc. London, ]8()1, p. 219 



f Nepal). 

 1896. Cnllnphis wardcUandii- var. unirirgalu! Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 

 Ill, p. 399 (Nepalj Darjeeling). 



