58 



NEW-YORK FAUNA. 



FAMILY ELAPSIDiE. 



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. Nofosset between the eye and nostril. 



Genus El aps. Schneider. Head scarcely larger than the hody ; no fosset between the eye and nostril ; 



upper jaw with a fixed and permanently erect poison fang. Resembles Coluberidce. 

 E.fulvius. (HoLBROOK, Herpet. Vol. 2, pi. 18.) Red, encircled with broad black bands bordered 



with yellow. Abdominal plates, 212; caudal, 32. Length twenty inches. Carolina, Louisiana, 



Upper Missouri 



