SNAKES. 15 



united with the frontal ; one anterior, two posterior oculars. 

 Scales keeled, lanceolate, in seventeen rows ; anal and subcaudals 

 entire. Teeth equal, smooth. Ceylon. 



1. Haplocercus ceylonensis. 



Above blackish or brown, uniform, or with some indistinct 

 spots; beneath uniform yellowish. 



a. Adult. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, Esq. 



b. Adult. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



Description. — Body very thin and much elongate ; tail mode- 

 rate, not distinct, tapering; head narrow, rounded in front. 

 Rostral small, just reaching the surface of head ; only one an- 

 terior frontal, obtuse in front, pomted behind; two posterior 

 frontals, suppressing the loreal; vertical rather elongate, five- 

 sided ; occipitals narrow ; one anterior, t\\ o posterior oculars ; 

 nostril between two small shields ; seven upper labials, eye above 

 the fourth ; three temporal shields, one in front ; first pair of 

 lower labials forming a suture behind the medial one; two pairs 

 of chin-shields, front pair largest. Scales in seventeen rows, 

 elongate, lanceolate, provided with a strong keel, especially 

 those of the tail; anal and subcaudals entire. Above vuiiform 

 blackish or brown, with two dorsal rows of small indistinct black 

 spots; occiput with a whitish dark-edged collar; beneath uni- 

 form yellowish. Length of cleft of mouth \" ; length of tail 2\" ; 

 total length 19". 



10. Elapoidis, Boie. 



Body and tail elongate ; two pairs of frontals ; two nasals, 

 nostril between ; ante-orbital none, united with the loreal ; one 

 posterior orbital. Scales keeled, elongate, in fifteen rows; anal 

 entire ; subcaudals two-rowed. Teeth equal, smooth. Java, 



Elapoidis, Boie, Isis, 1827, p- 519; Wagl. Syst. p. 194; Dum. 

 4' Bibr. vii. p. 122. Calamaria, sp., Schlegel, Ess. ii. p. 44. 



1. Elapoidis fuscus. 



Elapoidis fuscus, Boie, I. c. ; Wagl. I. c. ; Dum,. Sf Bibr. p. 123 

 (excl. Osceola elapsoidea, Baird & Girard). Calamaria elapoides, 

 Schlegel, Ess. ii. pi. 1. f. 31-33. 



Brown or blackish above, whitish beneath. 



«. Adult. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



