374 COLUBRID. 
B. 15 scales across the middle of the body ; a pair of large shields 
behind the parietals .......... 7. bungarus, p. 386. 
II. Seales in 15 or 17 rows on the neck. 
Rostral as deep as broad; eye separated 
from the labials by a series of sub- 
oculars ; scales in 17 rows on the body. 8. anchiete, p. 387. 
Rostral broader than deep; fourth or third 
and fourth Jabials entering the eye; 
scales in 15 rows on the body ...... 9. goldii, p. 387. 
Rostral broader than deep; thirdand fourth _ 
labials entering the eye; scales in 13 
rows on the body ............e0. ... 10. guenthert, p. 388. 
1. Naia haie. 
Seba, Thes. ii. pl. xv. fig. 1 (1735). 
Coluber haje, Eo in Hasselq. Reise Palest. p. 366 (1762), and 8. N. 
i. p. 387 (1766); Forsk. Deser. Anim. p. 14 (1775). 
niveus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 384, 
Cerastes candidus, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 83 (1768). 
Coluber candidissimus, Lacép. Serp. il. pp. 76 & 118 inn 
Vipera nivea, Daud. Rept. vi. p. 39 (1803). 
— haje, Daud. t.c. p. 41; I. Geo ye Deser. Faypte wes 
pl. vil. figs. 2, 4, 5 '(ia27), and re p. 184, pl. aC 829 
Naja haje, Merr. Tent. p- 148 (1820) ; Jan, Rev. §& Mag. Zool. ) 850, 
p- 129; Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p 187, pl. xx. figs, 7&8 
(1882) ; Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 188: 104; Tristram, Faun. 
Palest. p. 146 (1884); Valery Mayet, C.R. Ac. "Se. xeviii, 1884, 
ua haje, part., Dum. & Bibr. vii. p. 1298; A. Dum. Rev. § Mag. 
Zool. 1856, p. 554. 
haje, var. annulifera, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 624; 
Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, (1868) 
haje, var. A, Giinth. Cat. 22 
—— haje, var. viridis, Peters, Mon. Sa ie 1873, p. 411, pl. i. 
fig. 1; Reichen. Arch. f. Nat. 1874, p. 293. 
Eye modarite, two fifths to one half the length of the snout. 
Rostral a deep as broad or slightly broader than deep, its upper 
portion measuring one half to two thirds its distance from the frontal; 
internasals as long as the preefrontals; frontal once and one fifth 
to once and a half as long as broad, as broad as the supraocular, 
shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, one half to 
two fifths the length of the parietals ; one or several more or less 
enlarged occipital shields behind the parietals; one preocular, not 
in contact with the internasal; two or three postoculars; two or 
three suboculars, separating the eye from the labials; temporals 
142 or 3; seven (rarely eight) upper labials, third deeper than 
fourth, sixth (or seventh) largest and in contact with the lower 
postocular ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 
shields; posterior chin-shields nearly as long as but narrower than 
the anterior, and separated from each other by scales, 21-23 scales 
across the neck, 19-2] across the middle of the body. Ventrals 
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