189, ELAPOMOIUS. 237 
anal divided ; subcaudals 28. Red above, head, sides, and end of ~ 
tail black; terminal caudal shield white; ventrals whitish, with 
two series of black spots. The latter spots absent in the variety 
described as lineata, which differs besides in the presence of five 
brown longitudinal lines on the body. 
Total length 595 millim.; tail 60. 
§. Paulo and Matto Grosso, Brazil. 
9. Apostolepis ambinigra. 
Rhynchonyx ambiniger, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 438, pl. —. 
fig. 2 
g. 2. 
—— ambiniger vittatus, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xxiv. 1887, 
p. 56. 
Elapomorphus erythronotus, Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torino, x. 1895, 
no. 195, p. 20. 
Snout strongly projecting; eye minute. MRostral large, the - 
portion visible from above much longer than its distance from the 
frontal; latter shield once and one fourth to once and one third as. 
long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout,. 
shorter than the parietals; nasal in contact with the preocular; a. 
single postocular ; six upper labials, second and third entering the 
eye, fifth and sixth in contact with the parietal ; five lower labials: 
in contact with the chin-shields, which are subequal in size; first. 
lower labial in contact with its fellow behind the symphysial. 
Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 224-242; anal divided; subcaudals- 
21-33. Red above, yellowish white beneath; head, nape, and a 
* gular band black ; a yellowish spot on the third and fourth upper 
labials ; end of tail black, the terminal shield whitish. In the var. 
vittata, Cope, five dark brown streaks run along the body, on the: 
vertebral row of scales and on the fourth and sixth. 
Total length 620 millim.; tail 45. 
Paraguay and Matto Grosso. 
a-d. & (V. 231, 230,229; Asuncion, Paraguay. Dr. J. Bohls [C.].. 
C. 30, 28, 29) & 2 (V. 
242; C. 26). 
189. ELAPOMOIUS. 
Elapomorphus, part., Jan, Arch, Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 41; 
Strauch, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. xxix. 1884, p. 549. 
Elapomojus, Jan, l. c. p. 42. 
Dentition apparently as in Apostolepis and Elapomorphus. Head 
small, not distinct from neck; eye very small, with round pupil; 
internasals fused with the prefrontals ; nasal single, separated from 
the preeocular by a loreal; three pairs of chin-shields. Body cylin. 
drical; scales smooth, without pits, in 15 rows; ventrals rounded, 
Tail short, obtuse ; subcaudals in two rows. 
Brazil. 
