398 COLUBRID. 
ahah Ind. p. 218 (1876); Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 384 
(1890). 
Elaps atrofrontalis, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. 1877, p. 111. 
Eye measuring at least two thirds its distance from the mouth, 
Rostral broader than deep; frontal as long as its distance from the 
end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals; one pre- and 
two postoculars; a single temporal; seven upper labials, third and 
fourth entering the eye; two pairs of subequal chin-shields, the 
anterior in contact with four or five labials. Scales in 13 rows. 
Ventrals 205-247; anal divided ; subcaudals 21-32. Light bay 
above, with a distant series of black dots along each side of the 
back ; head and nape black, with one or two yellow bands on each 
side ; lower parts red ; tail with two black rings. 
Total length 485 millim. ; tail 30. 
Burma, Cochinchina, Malay Peninsula. 
a, 2 (V. 205; C. 23). Rangoon. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.}. 
b. Hgr. (V. 178; C. 20). Cochinchina. E. Cox-Smith, Esq. [P.]. 
c. 9 (V. 204; C. 24). —? Zoological Society. 
(Type.) 
4. Callophis macclellandii. 
Elaps macclellandii, Reinh. Cale. Journ. N. H. iv. 1844, p. 582, and 
id, Meddel. 1860, p. 247. 
—— personatus, Blyth, Journ, As. Soe. Beng. xxiii. 1855, p. 298. 
univirgatus, Giinth, Cat. p. 231 (1858). 
Callophis univirgata, Giinth. Proc. Zool, Soc. 1859, p. 88, pl. xvii. 
— macclellandii, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p 219, and wy 
Brit. Ind. p. 349 (1864); Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 214 
(1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 385 (1890), and Ann. Mus. 
Genova, (2) xiii. 1893, p. 327. 
—— annularis, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 350, pl. xxiv. fig. 1; 
Theobd. l. c. p. 212. 
Eye as long as‘or a little shorter than its distance from the 
mouth. Rostral broader than deep; frontal as long as or a little 
longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or 
slightly shorter than the parietals ; one pre- and two postoculars ; 
temporals 1+1; seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the , 
eye; two pairs of small subequal chin-shields, anterior in contact 
with three or four lower labials. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 
182-240 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 25-34, Reddish brown above, 
with regular, equidistant, black, light-edged transverse bars or 
rings; belly yellowish, with black cross-bands or quadrangular 
spots ; head with two black cross-bands separated by a yellow one, 
A variety distinguished by the presence of a black vertebral line ; 
the transverse bars are replaced by transverse spots or altogether 
absent. 
Total length 620 millim. ; tail 55. 
Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Southern China. 
