438 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on the Reptiles and 



Elapidse. 



Elaps, Sclin. 



a. Black annuli on the body equidistant corallinus. 



h. Annuli in threes lemniscatits. 



Elajjs corallinus. 



Coluber corallinus^ Linn. S. N. i. p. 384. 



Elaps corallinus, Wied, Abbild. ; Schleg. Serp. ii. p. 440, pi. xvi. figs. 



1-3; Duni. & Bibr. vii. p. 1207; Hens. I. c. p. 333; Jan, Icon. Oph. 



41, pi. vi. figs. 1-3. 

 Micnmis Spi.rii, Wagl. in Spix, Serp. Bras. p. 48, pi. xviii. 



Elaps lem7iiscatus. 



Coluber lemmscaius, Linn. S. N. i. p. 386. 



Ulaps leiiiniscahis, Schn. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 291 ; Schleg. Serp, ii. p. 444, 



pi. xiv. figs. 6 & 7 ; Dum. & Bibr. vii. p. 1217 ; Hens. /. c. p. 333; 



Jan, Icon. Oph. 42, pi. v. fig. 1. 

 Elaps altirostris, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 345, and 1862, 



p. 347. 



B. M. ; V. I. 



ViperidsB. 



a. Tail simple Botkrojys. 



b. End of tail with horny appendages (rattle) Crotalus. 



BOTHROPS, Wagl. 



a. Scales in 21 to 27 rows on the middle of the body ; no 



bar on the rostral shield diporus. 



b. Scales in 29 or 31 rows on the middle of the body : back 



with alternating C-slif>ped black spots ; a dark vertical 



bar on the rostral shield alternatus. 



Bothrojjs dijiorus. 



JSothrops diporus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 347 ; Bouleng. Ann. 



& Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xvi. p. 88 ; Boettg. Zeitschr. f. Naturw. Iviii. 



1885, p. 239. 

 Bnthrops atrox, part.. Hens. /. c. p. 334. 

 Triqonocephalns (Bothrops) pubescens, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 



xi. 1869, p. 157. 



B. M. ; V. I. 



Bothrops alternatus. 



Bothrops alternatus, Dum. &. Bibr. vii. p. 1512, pi. Ixxxii. fig. 1 ; Jan, 

 Icon. Oph. 47, pl. vi. fig. 1 ; Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 

 xvi. p. 88. 



Bothrops atrox, part., Hens. /. c. 



B. M. ; V. I. 



Hensel's specimen from Veccaria (Mus. Berl. 6855) belongs 

 to B. alternatus ; the others, from Porto Alegre (6853-54), to 

 B, diporus. 



