58 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
FAMILY ELAPSID. 
With venomous fangs, and permanently fixed ; other teeth in the upper maxillary, and on the palate. 
Head not distinct from the body. Jaws not dilatable. No fosset between the eye and nostril. 
Genus Exaprs. Schneider. Head scarcely larger than the body; no fosset between the eye and nostril ; 
upper jaw with a fixed and permanently erect poison fang. Resembles Coluberida. 
E. fulvius. (Hotproox, Herpet. Vol. 2, pl. 18.) Red, encircled with broad black bands bordered 
with yellow. Abdominal plates, 212; caudal, 32. Length twenty inches. Carolina, Louisiana, 
Upper Missouri 
