172 ELAPS COLLAKIS. 



The change in the third volume of our text-book "The 

 Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum" that will 

 result from this is as follows: The description oiHemihun- 

 ganis coUaris on page 393 will be regarded as transferred to 

 page 433 and inserted after that of Elcqjs nanluccii Jan. 



One of the Type Specimens. 



W. 1443. Leyden Museum. (Ancien Cabinet, Manille). 



Locality unknown. Male; total length 442, tail 26 mm. 



Squamation. Scales in 15 continuous rows; those on 

 the anterior portion of the body are acute angled in the 

 dorsal rows and truncate in the lateral rows ; posteriorly 

 the tendency for all the scales is to be acute angled except 

 those in the first and second rows, which continue to be 

 truncate. Yentrals 228. Anal divided. Subcaudals 21 pairs, 

 the terminal scute short and rounded. Four gular shields 

 in the median line between the posterior geneials and the 

 first ventral. Rostral broader than long (2.4 mm. by 1.4 

 mm.). Internasals broader than long (1.5 mm. by 1.3 mm.); 

 entering into the formation of the upper rim of the nostril. 

 Prefrontals longer than broad (2.1 mm. by 1.9 mm.). 

 Frontal small (2.7 mm. by 1.7 mm.); lateral edges nearly 

 parallel; terminating behind in a trifle less than a right 

 angle. Parietals (4.6 mm. by 3.5 mm.) not in contact 

 with the inferior postocular; laterally in contact with the 

 sixth supralabial; posteriorly in contact with a large oc- 

 cipital shield and with the first scale in the median and 

 the first scale in each of the seventh rows. Nasal divided, 

 the anterior the larger. Prseocular (1.5 mm.) in contact 

 with the third supralabial. Postoculars two, the inferior 

 the smaller. Anterior temporal absent; posterior behind the 

 sixth labial and in contact with the parietal and the 

 seventh supralabial. Seven supralabials, the third and fourth 

 entering the eye; the sixth the largest, its suture with 

 the parietal on a level with thoj- center of the pupil. 

 Mental longer than broad, in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields. Seven infralabials, the first pair not touching 

 behind the mental. Anterior chin-shields longer than the 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseuzn, Vol. XXXV. 



