SNAKES. 219 



1. Hamadryas elaps. 



Less. Voy. de la Coquille, Zool. Rept. pi, 5. Naja elaps, Schleg. 

 Ess. ii. p. 485. Hamadiyas ophiophagus. Cantor, I. c. Trimere- 

 surus ophiophagus, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 1245. 



Scales in fifteen rows. 



A. Above uniform, more or less dark olive, beneath paler. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's CoUection. — All sub- 



caudals bifid. Olive above. 



b. Borneo. Presented by Captain Sir Edward Belcher. — Sub- 



caudals entire and bifid. Black above. 



B. Var. vittata. With narrow white cross bands ; head with 

 four broader cross bands = Naja vittata, W. Elliott, Madras 

 Journ. Lit. Sf Sc. xi. pi. 1. Naja bungarus, Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 476. 



c. Large specimen. Stufi'ed. Madras. Presented by W. Elliott, 



as Naja vittata. 



d. Young. Sine patria. — The coloration of this specimen perfectly 



agrees with Professor Schlegel's description and figm'e ; but 

 it exhibits the scales in not more than fifteen longitudinal 

 rows; no doubt the number nineteen in the aforesaid 

 description is wrong. 



6. Bungarus, Daudin. 



Body rather elongate and compressed ; tail short ; head de- 

 pressed, broad, distinct from neck, with short rounded muzzle ; 

 two nasals, nostril between ; no loreal ; one anterior, three pos- 

 terior oculars. Scales smooth, not much imbricate, in thirteen 

 to fifteen rows, those of the vertebral line large and hexagonal. 

 Anal and subcaudals entire. Grooved fang in front ; some smaller 

 ones behind, not grooved. East Indies. 



Bungarus, Daud. Rept. v. p. 263, viii. p. 385; Cuv. Regne 

 Anim. ; Merr. Tent. p. 13/ ; Schleg. Ess. ii. p. 456 ; Cantor, 

 Catal. p. 112; Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 1265. Megserophis, Gray, 

 Ann. Sf Mag. 1849, p. 247. Aspidoclonion, Wagl. Syst. Amph. 

 p. 193. Boa, sp., Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 353; Hermann, Observ. 

 Zool. i. p. 272. Pseudoboa, sp., Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 284. 

 Coluber, sp., Linne. 



1. Bungarus lineatus. 



Russell, Ind. Serp. i. 1 (ii. 31 ?). Boa lineata, Shaw, Zool. 

 iii. p. 356. pi. 2. Pseudoboa coerulea, Schneid. Hist. Amph. 

 p. 284. Bungarus coeruleus, Daud. Rept. v. p. 270; Merr. 

 Tent. p. 137 ; Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 1273. Aspidoclonion cceruleum, 

 Wagl. Syst. p. 192. Bungarus candidus, Cantor, Catal. ^t. 113. 



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