230, RHYNCHELAPS, 361 
above as long as its distance from the frontal; internasals much 
shorter than the preefrontals ; frontal once and one third as long as 
broad, as long as or longer than its distance from the end of the 
snout, a little shorter than the parietals ; posterior nasal in contact 
with the single preocular ; two postoculars; temporals 142; seven 
upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, sixth largest. 
Scales.in 13 rows. Ventrals 163; anal entire; subcaudals 22. 
Reddish brown above, with yellow cross-bands, the scales on which 
are edged with reddish brown; upper lip, outer row of scales, and 
lower parts yellow. 
Total length 510 millim.; tail 43. 
Caffraria. 
6. Elapechis boulengeri. 
Elapsoidea boulengeri, Boetty. Zool. Anz. 1895, p. 62. 
Rostral broader than deep, visible from above; internasals hardly 
half as long as the prefrontals; frontal once and one third as long 
as broad, longer than its distance from the end of the snout, much 
shorter than the parietals; posterior nasal in contact with the 
single preocular; two postoculars; temporals 142; seven upper 
labials, third and fourth entering the eye; three or four lower 
labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are separated 
from the symphysial; posterior chin-shields as long as or slightly 
longer than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 141; 
anal entire; subcaudals 20. Black above, with narrow white cross- 
bars; head white, black along the suture between the parietal 
shields ; blackish grey beneath. 
Total length 170 millim.; tail 14. 
Zambesi. 
230. RHYNCHELAPS. 
Rhynchoelaps, Jan, Rev. § Mag. Zool. 1858, p. 518, and Prodr. 
Icon. Gén. p. 7 (1859). 
Simoselaps, Jan, Rev. § Mag. Zool. 1859, 2 P: 123, and Prodr. p. 16. 
Brachyurophis, Giinth. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 18638, p. 21; 
Krefft, Sn, Austral. p. 51 (1869). 
Elaps, oak, Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 112 (1863). 
Pseudelaps, part., Jan, J. c. p. 116. 
Rhinelaps, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. HH, (4) ix. 1872, p. 33. 
Maxillary extending forwards as far as the palatine; a pair 
of moderately large grooved poison-fangs, and two small teeth 
near the posterior extremity of the maxillary ; mandibular teeth, 
anterior longest. Head small, not distinct from neck, with more or 
less projecting snout; eye small, with vertically elliptic pupil ; 
nostril in a single nasal; no loreal. Body short, cylindrical ; 
scales smooth, without pits, in 15 or 17 rows; ventrals rounded. 
Tail very short; subcaudals in two rows. 
Australia, 
