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rows, short, with rather rounded apex, in fifteen rows ; anal bifid ; 

 subcaudals two-rowed. Grooved tooth in front, a series of smooth 

 teeth behind. Australia. 



Furina, Dura, Sf Bibr. vii. p. 1236". Brachysoma, Fitzinger, 

 Syst. Rept. p. 25. Calamaria, sp., Schley. Ess. ii. p. 35. 



I. Brachysoma diadema. 



Calamaria diadema, Schley. I. c. Brachysoma diadema, Fitz. 



1. c. Furina diadema, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 1239. 



Pale brown above ; head and neck black above, with a white 

 collar. 



a. Adult. W. Australia. — b. Adult. W. Australia. 



2. Brachysoma bimaculatum. 



Furina bimaculata, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 1240. 



Pale brown above ; head and neck black above, with white 

 muzzle aud a white collar. — Dum. Sf Bibr. Tasmania. 



3. Brachysoma calonotos. 



Furina calonotos, Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 1241. pi. 75 bis. 



Pale brown above ; back black, punctated with white ; head 

 and neck black, with a white cross band before the eyes and a 

 white collar. Tasmania 



12. Elaps, Schneider. 



Body elongate, sometimes very slender, cylindric ; tail short ; 

 head rather depressed, not distinct from neck, with short rounded 

 muzzle ; two nasals, nostril between (in E. hyyice one nasal) ; 

 no loreal, replaced by posterior nasal and anterior ocular ; one 

 anterior, two (in E. hyyice one) posterior oculars. Scales smooth, 

 not much imbricate, in the American species generally in fifteeu, 

 in the East Indian ones in thirteen rows ; those of the vertebral 

 line not larger ; anal entire ; subcaudals two-rowed. Grooved 

 fang in front, no other tooth behind. East Indies ; South and 

 Central America ; Africa. 



Elaps, Dum. Sf Bibr. vii. p. 1191; Cantor, Catal. p. 109; 

 Schleyel, Ess. ii. p. 435; Gray, Zool. Misc. ; Wag I. Syst.Amph. 

 p. 193 ; Cuvier, Regne Animal. Calliophis, Gray, hid. Zool. 

 Vipera, sp., Harlan, Med. Phys. Res. 1835, p. 127 ; Latr. Rept. 

 iv. p. 29 ; Daud. Rept. vi. p. 13. Aspis, sp., Cerastes, sp., 

 Laurenti, Syn. Rept. Elaps, sp., Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 289. 

 Coluber, sp., auct. prior. 



