193, CALAMELAPS, 245 
loreal. Body cylindrical ; scales smooth; without pits, in 17 rows ; 
ventrals rounded, Tail short; subcaudals in two rows. 
Tropical Africa ? 
1, Elapotinus picteti. 
Elapotinus picteti, Jan, 1. c., and Icon. Gén. 13, pl. iii. fig. 1 (1865). 
Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above; internasals 
as long as broad, shorter than the prefrontals; frontal once and a 
half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the 
snout, shorter than the parietals; supraocular nearly as broad as - 
long; preocular minute; a small postocular; temporals 142; 
seven upper labials, third in contact with the prefrontal, third and 
fourth entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the 
anterior chin-shields, which are a little longer than the posterior. 
Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 175; anal divided; subcaudals 36. 
Blackish above, with a white lateral line; a white occipital collar ; 
upper lip white; brown beneath, outer ends of ventrals and outer 
row of scales white. 
Total length 290 millim.; tail 40. 
Habitat unknown. 
193. CALAMELAPS. 
? Choristodon (non Jonas), Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr., Rept., App. p. 18 
(1849) ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 235. 
Amblyodipsas, part., Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 40. 
Calamelaps, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, p. 26. 
Maxillary very short, with three or four teeth gradually increasing 
in size and followed, after an interspace, by a large grooved fang 
situated below the eye; anterior mandibular teeth enlarged. Head 
small, not distinct from neck; eye minute, with round pupil; nostril 
in a divided or semidivided nasal; no loreal; no preocular; no 
anterior temporal. Body cylindrical. Scales smooth, without pits, 
in 17 to 21 (or 13?) rows; ventrals rounded. Tail very short, 
obtuse; subcaudals in two rows. 
Tropical Africa; South Africa ? 
Synopsis of the Species. 
Bealed: 1 17-7008. swear vesicke ae vee sess 1. unicolor, p. 245. 
Scaled 1k 21 TOWS..» «acu eit tase ts hee so os 2. polylepis, p. 245. 
Scales it 1D TOWS.. «.c.cuape er eace Hens 0 a3 > 3. concolor, p. 246. 
1. Calamelaps unicolor. 
Calamaria unicolor, Reinh. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. x. 1848, p. 236, 
pl. i. figs. 1-3. 
Amblyodipsas unicolor, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 41. 
Calamelaps unicolor, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (8) xviii. 1866, 
p. 26. 
