CALLOPHIDES. 59 
Body cylindrical ; abdominal scuta 200 and more; head slightly de- 
pressed, not distinguishable from the neck; nostrils lateral, narrow, be- 
tween two shields; eyes small, one pre-, two postoculars ; temporals in 
a single longitudinal series; 6, 7, or 8 upper labials, the 3d and 4th 
entering the orbit; scales smooth, 13 rows, uniform, subcaudal, bifid; a 
grooved fang, without any teeth behind it. 
The Callophides being, viz.: 
Body cylindrical, of nearly the same uniform diameter, much elon- 
gated; abdominal scuta 200 and more; head slightly depressed, hardly 
distinguishable from neck; shields on head normal, occipitals somewhat 
elongate, loreal wanting ; ire single preocular forms a suture with the 
postnasal, extends on to the upper surface of the head, but does not reach 
the vertical. Two postoculars in contact with the anterior temporal. 
Upper labials eight or less, the third and fourth entering the orbits. 
Scales invariably in thirteen rows, smooth, polished, slightly imbricate ; 
tail short, subcaudals bifid. 
First Variety—N. E. CALL. INTESTINALIS. Found in Cen- 
tral India; habitat, Singapore. LElaps furcatus, Schlegel, 
Schneider. 
Aspis intestinalis, Laur., Syn., Amph. 
Maticora lineata, Gray. 
Elaps intestinalis, Cantor. 
Calloph. intestinalis, Giinther. 
fod described by the latter as follows, viz. 
Head light-brown above, yellowish below, spotted with black on the 
sides; a vermilion black-edged band runs from the occiput to the tip of 
the tail; a buff-colored band with an upper and lower black border runs 
along the joining edges of the two outer series of scales; upper black 
border as broad as the stripe of reddish-gray ground color on the side of 
the back. Belly with alternate pale citron and black cross-bands; the 
darker shade extends over three or four scuta, the lighter over two. 
Tail sometimes marked with three black rings. Upper labials 6; abdom- 
inal scuta, 223-271; subcaudal squame, 24-26; length 2’; tail 1477. 
Dr, Stoliczka exhibited a specimen of this variety at a 
meeting of the Asiatic Society, in 1870, which had the poison- 
gland extended down one-third the length of the body. 
