CALAMARIA ELAPSOIDEA. 19) 
Genera Remarks. It is more than probable that Bosc had this animal in 
view when describing his “Couleuvre écarlate,”* (Coluber coccineus,) for his 
description agrees perfectly well: “body vermilion, with transverse bands of 
> and, besides this, his figure of it corres- 
yellowish-white between black bands;’ 
ponds to the one here given, in shape, size, and disposition of the colours. But 
there is still some confusion, for prior to this he had sent “the animal, accom- 
panied by a description and drawing,” to Latreille, who published them both in 
his Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles; in which he says of it, “the snout is obtuse 
and somewhat of the horse-shoe shape; under part of the body uniform white.” 
Yet in Bose’s description, quoted above, the rings are represented encircling 
the body, as in the Elaps fulvius, with which the animal seems to have been 
confounded, but from which it is entirely distinct in the arrangement of its teeth; 
there being in the Calamaria elapsoidea, palatine and maxillary teeth, but no 
fangs. 
The disposition of the colour, too, is different, as may be seen on a careful 
examination; for in the Elaps fulvius we have certainly a crimson groundwork 
and black rings, but each black ring is bordered with a smaller yellow one, both 
anteriorly and posteriorly. Should, however, this animal be the Couleuvre 
écarlate (Coluber coccineus) of Bosc, still his specific name cannot be retained as 
it has been previously applied by Blumenbach to another serpent. 
* Nouy. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. vi. p. 395. 
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