30. ELAroiDEs. 307 



bular teeth suboqual. Head not distinct from nock ; cj'c small, 

 with round pupil; nostril large, between two nasals, the posterior 

 of which is concave ; no prneocular, loreal and proefrontal entering 

 the ej'e. Body cylindrical, slender ; scales lanceolate, keeled, 

 without apical pits, in 15 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail long, sub- 

 caudals in two rows. Hypapophyses developed throughout the 

 vertebral column. 

 Malay Archipelago. 



1. Elapoides fiiscus. 



Elapoides fuscus, Boie, I. c. ; Dum. 8) Bibr. p. 123 (1854) ; G'unth, 

 Cat. p. lo (18-58) ; Jan, I. c. p. 21, and Icon. Gen. 12, pi. i. figs. 2 

 & 3 (1865). 



Calaraavia elapoides, Scldec/. P/n/s. Scrp. ii. p. 44, pi. i. figs. 31-33 

 (1837). 



Snout short, broadly rounded ; rostral much broader than dee]), 

 just visible from above; suture between the internasals as long as 

 or a little shorter than that between the prset'rontals ; frontal at 

 least as broad as long, much shorter than the parietals ; supraocular 

 very small, the prefrontal entering the eye ; a single very small 

 postocular, in contact with a narrow, elongate temporal ; six upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the ej'e, fifth very large ; three or 

 four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are about as long as the posterior. Scales strongly keeled, in 15 

 rows. Ventrals 146-158 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 74-91. Dark 

 brown or brown and yellow above ; uniform yellowish inferiorly, 

 passing to brown or brownish on the tail. 



Total length 470 millim. ; tail 120. 



Java, Sumatra. 



A. Uniform dark brown above. 



a. 2 (V. 147; C. 75). .Tava. Levden Museum. 



b. 2 (V. 155 ; C. 76). Java. 



c-r/. cJ (V. 148, 140; Willis Mountains, Baron v. Iliiegel [C.]. 



C. 87, 91). Kediri,Java,5000 ft. 



B. Dark brown above, with small yellow spots. 



e. 9 (V. 152 ; C. 74). Willis Mts., 5000 ft. Baron v. Huegel [C.]." 

 /. 2 (.V. 158 ; C. ?). Java. Jlr. Friihstorfer [C.]. 



C. Anterior half of body yellow, with a dark brown vertebral stripe 



and a series of small dark brown spots on each side; posterior 

 half of back uniform dark brown. 



ff. (V. 147: C?) Sumatra. Dr. Bleaker. 



(B/aphis sumatranus, Blkr.) 



