264 CLASS xv. 



Scales smooth. Tail below covered with undivided scutes, or 

 partly with paired, partly with undivided scutes, 



Sp. Dendroaspis ophiophagus, Hamadryas ophiophagus CANTOR, Proceedings 

 of Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 73, Naja Bungarus (and Naja Elaps according to 

 DUMER.) SCHLEG. Verh. over de natuurk. Gesch. der nederl. overzeesche 

 bezittingen, Rept. PL 10; Java, Sumatra; Dendroaspis porphyriaca, Naja 

 porphyrica SCHL., Phys. d. Serp. PL 17, fig. 9, (head), A canthophis tortor 

 LESS., GUERIN Iconogr., Rept. PI. 24, fig. i ; New South Wales. 



Dendroechis FisCH., Dendroaspis SCHLEG. (not FITZ.) Head 

 flat above, scutate, elongate. Some small solid teeth in upper jaw 

 behind the poison-tooth. Posterior ocular scutella four. Frenal 

 scute none ; with frontal scutes at the sides of the head behind the 

 nasal scute produced on each side to the marginal scutes of upper 

 lip. Scales large, smooth, thin, in the middle of back larger. 

 Scales at the sides of abdominal scutes smaller, lanceolate, imbri- 

 cate, with apex acuminate, horny. 



Sp. Dendroechis Jamesonii, Elaps Jamesonii TRAILL, Dinophis Hammondii 

 HALLO WELL, Journal of A cad. of not. Sc. Philad. Sec. Series, n. 1854, 

 PL 29, T. G. FISCHER Abkandl. der naturhist. Vereins zu Hamburg, in. 

 1856, Tab. i from the west coast of Africa. This snake grows to a 

 length of 5 or 6 feet, and has a slender elongated form ; lives on trees, 

 and represents Dendroaspis in the Naja-tribe. Dr SCHLEGEL has given a 

 short notice of this species in Verslag der werTczaamheden van het Zoologisch 

 Genootschap te Amsterdam. March, 1848. 



Elaps SCHN., MERE. (excl. some species). Head small, flat 

 above, scutate. Eyes small. Gape of mouth narrow; upper jaw 

 gibbous, obtuse, protracted beyond lower. Body slender, round. 

 Subcaudal scutes paired. 



Sp. Elaps lemniscatus MERR., Coluber lemniscatus L., Mus. Ad. Frider. Tab. 

 xiv. fig. i, SEBA Thesaur. n. Tab. 76, fig. 3, (and other places), Surinam ; 

 Elaps corallinus MERR., Cuv. R.Ani., d. ill., Rept. PL 35. fig. i, MAXIM. 

 Abb. z. Naturg. von Bras., Lief. vi. Brasil. Species are also found in the 

 East Indies, Africa and New Holland. They are mostly black snakes, 

 ringed with white and red. See also SCHLEGEL Abb. neuer Amphib. Taf. 

 46, 47. A South- African species is Elaps Hygecs MERR., Coluber lacteus L. 

 Mus. Ad. Frid. Tab. 13, fig. i, MERREM Beitrdge, i. Tab. vi. Another 

 South- African species was placed by SCHLEGEL in the genus Naja, Elaps 

 lubricus MERREM, Bdtr. i. PL 2. This species is the type of the sub- 

 genus Aspidelaps FITZ. 



In these species and many others, according to DUMBRIL and BIBRON, 

 there are no teeth in the superior maxillary bones except the grooved 

 poison-fangs. There are other species with several small solid teeth 

 following the fangs ; DUMERIL and BIBRON have founded on these a separate 



