174 ELAPS COLLARIS. 



directed upwards and outwards, the diameter (0.9 mm.) being 

 one half its distance (1.8 mm.) from the mouth; the center 

 of the eye is above the suture between the fourth and 

 fifth supralabial. The left maxillary bone bears a single 

 fang (1.6 mm. long), the base of which is at the suture 

 between the second and third supralabial shields. There 

 are no small teeth on the maxillary bone in addition to 

 the fangs. Head 12 mm. long, 6.8 mm. broad, snout 4 mm., 

 interorbital space 4 mm. wide. 



One of the Type Specimens. 



N°. 1444. Leyden Museum. (Ancien Cabinet). 



Locality unknown. Total length 399, tail 24 mm. 



Squamation. Scales in 15 rows; ventrals 229; anal 

 divided; subcaudals 21 pairs, the terminal scute blunt. 

 Prseocular one ; postoculars two ; anterior temporal absent ; 

 supralabials seven, the third and fourth entering the eye, 

 the sixth broadly in contact with the parietal shield. 



Coloration. On the abdomen there are thirty-five 

 light spots. Tail light with a saddle mark and a dark tip. 



A n a 1 m y. Maxillary bone without small teeth. Head 

 11 mm. long, 6.1 mm. wide; snout 3.6 mm.; diameter of 

 eye 0.8 mm., its distance from the mouth 1.8 mm. 



Type Specimen of EJaps (jastrodelus Duméril et 



BiBRON. 



W. 3930. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris. Locality unknown. 



Female ; total length 336, tail 22 mm. 



Squamation. Scales in 15 rows; ventrals 228; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 22 pairs, terminal scute blunt. Rostral 

 broader than long, visible from above, suture between the 

 internasals one half as long as that between the prefron- 

 tals; frontal nearly one and one half times as long as 

 broad, a trifle shorter than the parietal ; nasal divided ; 

 praeocular one ; postoculars two ; temporals, on the right 

 side an anterior and a posterior (1 — 1), the anterior in con- 

 tact with the postoculars and supralabials Y — VI, on the 

 left side the anterior temporal is fused with supralabial 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, ~V^ol. XXXV. 



