eiaps Csequieli ano RI)inostoma bimaculatum^ 

 new snûkeô from tl)e State of (Dinas 6eraes 



by 



ADOLPHO LUXZ, Ivl. D. and OSWALDO DE IVIELLO. M. O. 



(Instituto Oswaldo Cruz in Rio and Branch in Bello Horizonte) 



Amongst the snakes collected by the 

 Bello Horizonte Branch of the Institute 

 Oswaldo Cruz 4 new species were disco- 

 vered by Dr. OSWALDO DE MELLO. 

 Two of them were described in the 

 Folha Medica of 1922 (n. 13, p. 97); 

 the descriptions of the other two fui- 

 lows here. 



ESaps EzequieSi n. sp. 



The only specimen of this kind, 

 apparently a female, was collected in 

 Caxambu, in 1919. The place is in the 

 State of Minas. 



The species belongs to the third 

 group, division B, subdivision c, of the 

 key given by Boulenger in the Catalogue 

 of Snakes of the British Museum. In ge- 

 neral appearance it comes near E. Marc- 

 gravii but has no anterior temporal, 

 while the groups of rings are more nu- 

 merous. There are three more species of 

 Elaps since described by BOULENGER, 

 viz: Rosenbergi (Ecuador), Simonsi (Ar- 



gentine), omissus (Venezuela) and one 

 by AMARAL, named Elaps Fischeri, from 

 the Serra da Bocaina in the State of S. 

 Paulo. (There are also some doubtful 

 forms, mentioned in the Biologia Centra- 

 U- Americana.) Of those, only Fischeri and 

 Simonsi come near to Ezequieli, but dif- 

 fer by anatomical characters, the pre- 

 sence of an anterior temporal and the 

 sjonphyseal reaching the anterior chin- 

 shields. The following description of 

 the new species shows the other affini- 

 ties and diffei'ences: 



Description: Eye half as long as its 

 distance from the mouth. Rostral dee- 

 per than broad, the part seen from abo- 

 ve a little longer than half its distance 

 from the frontal. Internasals sliortec 

 than broad, as long as the prefrontals. 

 Frontal longer than broad, shorter than 

 the parietais which are not as long as 

 their distance from the end of the snout. 

 One preocular, in contact with the pos- 

 terior nasal; two postoculars, the su- 



