2(34 CLASS XV, 



Scales smooth. Tail below covered with ■undivided scutes, or 

 partly with paired, partly with undivided scutes. 



Sp. Dendroaspis opMophagus, Uamadryas opTiiopliagus Cantor, Proceedinys 

 of Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 73, Naja Bungarus (and Naja Maps according to 

 DuMER.) ScHLEG. Vcrh. over de natuurk. Gesch. der nederl. overzeesche 

 lezittingen, Bept. PI. 10; Java, Sumatra; — Dendroaspis porphyriaca, Naja 

 porphp'ica Schl., Phys. d. Serp. PI. 17, fig. 9, (head), AcanthopiMs tortor 

 Less., Guerin Iconogr., Rept. PI. 24, fig. i ; New South Wales. 



Dendroechis FiSCH., Dendroaspis ScHLEG. (not FiTZ.) Head 

 flat above, scutate, elongate. Some small solid teeth in upper jaw 

 behind the poison-tooth. Posterior ocular scutella four. Frenal 

 scute none ; with frontal scutes at the sides of the head behind the 

 nasal scute produced on each side to the marginal scutes of upper 

 lip. Scales large, smooth, thin, in the middle of back larger. 

 Scales at the sides of abdominal scutes smaller, lanceolate, imbri- 

 cate, with apex acuminate, horny. 



Sp. Dendroechis Jamesonii, Elaps Jamesonii Traill, Dinophis Hammondii 

 Hallowell, Journal of Acad, of nat. Sc. Philad. Sec. Series, 11. 1854, 

 PL 29, T. G. Fischer Ahhandl. der naturhist. Vereins zu Hamlurg. iii. 

 1856, Tab. f ; from the west coast of Africa. This snake grows to a 

 length of 5 or 6 feet, and has a slender elongated form ; lives on trees, 

 and represents Dendroaspis in the Naja-tribe. Dr Schlegel has given a 

 short notice of this species in Verslag der werhzaaniheden van het Zoologisch 

 Genootschap te Amsterdam. March, 1848. 



Ela2Js ScHN., Mere. (excl. some species). Head small, fiat 

 above, scutate. Eyes small. Gape of mouth narrow ; upper jaw 

 gibbous, obtuse, protracted beyond lower. Body slender, round. 

 Subcaudal scutes paired. 



Sp. Elaps lemniscaius Merr., Coluher lemniscatus L., Mus. Ad. Frider. Tab. 

 XIV. fig. I, Seba Thesaur. 11. Tab. 76, fig. 3, (and other places), Surinam; — • 

 Elaps corallinus Merr., Cuv. R.Ani., ed. ill., Rept. PI. 35. fig. i, Maxim. 

 Ahh. z. Naturg. von Bras., Lief. vi. Brasil. Species are also found in the 

 East Indies, Africa and New Holland. They are mostly black snakes, 

 ringed with white and red. See also Schlegel Ahh. never Amphih. Taf. 

 46, 47. A South- African species is Elaps HygecB Merr., Coluber lacteus L. 

 Mus. Ad. Frid. Tab. 13, fig. i, Merrem Beitrage, i. Tab. vi. Another 

 South-African species was placed by Schlegel in the genus Naja, Elaps 

 lubricus Merrem, Btitr. 1. PI. 2. This species is the type of the sub- 

 genus Aspidelaps FiTZ. 



In these species and many others, according to Dumeril and BiBRON, 

 there are no teeth in the superior maxillary bones except the grooved 

 poison-fangs. There are other species with several small solid teeth 

 following the fangs ; Dumeril and Bibron have founded on these a separate 



