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30. ELAPOIDEs., 307 
bular teeth subequal. Head not distinct from neck; eye small, 
with round pupil; nostril large, between two nasals, the posterior 
of which is concave ; no preocular, loreal and prefrontal entering 
the eye. Body cylindrical, slender; scales lanceolate, keeled, 
without apical pits, in 15 rows; ventrals rounded, Tail long, eub- 
caudals in two rows. Hypapophyses developed throughout the 
vertebral column. 
Malay Archipelago. 
1. Elapoides fuscus. 
60 py fuseus, Boie, 1. c.; Dum. § Bibr. p. 123 (1854); Giinth, 
gh aed ~\ ami Jan, l. c. p. 21, and Icon. Gén. 12, pl. i. figs. 2 
3 (1865 
Calum clapoides, Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 44, pl. i. figs. 31-33 
Snout short, broadly rounded ; rostral much broader than deep, 
just visible from above; suture between the internasals as long as 
or alittle shorter than that between the prefrontals; frontal at 
least as broad as long, much shorter than the parietals ; supraocular 
very small, the prefrontal entering the eye; a single very small 
.in contact with a narrow, elongate "temporal ; six upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye, fifth very large ; three or 
four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 
are about as long as the posterior. Scales strongly keeled, in 15 
rows. Ventrals 146-158; anal entire; subcaudals 74-91. Dark 
brown or brown and yellow above; uniform yellowish inferiorly, 
ing to brown or brownish on the tail. 
Total length 470 millim. ; tail 120. 
Java, Sumatra. 
A. Uniform dark brown above. 
a. 2 (V. 147; C. 75). Java. Leyden Museum, 
b. 2 (V. 155; C. 76). Java. 
e-d, g (V.148, 146; Willis Mountains, Baron vy. Huegel [C.). 
C. 87, 91). Kediri,Java,5000 ft. 
B. Dark brown above, with small yellow spots. 
e. 2 (V. 152; C.74). Willis Mts.,5000 ft. =< v. ae toes (Oe 
F. 2 (V. 158; C. P). Java. 
C. Anterior half of body yellow, with a dark brown vertebral stripe 
and a series of small dark brown spots on each side; posterior 
half of back uniform dark brown. 
g- 2 (V. 147; C.?) Sumatra. Dr. Bleeker, 
(Elaphis sumatranus, Blkr.) 
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