241. ELAPs. 411 
241. ELAPS. 
Elaps, part., Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 289 (1801) ; Wagler, Syst. 
Amph. p. 193 (1830) ; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 435 (1837) ; Dum. 
§& Bibr. Erp. Gén. vii. p. 1191 (1854); Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. 
p. 229 (1858) ; Jan, Rev. §& Mag. Zool. 1858, p. 516. i 
Micrurus, Wagler, in Spix, Serp. Bras. p. 48 (1824). 
Elaps, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 84; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 
1862, p. 636; Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 679; 
Stejneger, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. f. 1893, p. 358 (1895). 
Maxillary very short, extending beyond the palatine, with a pair 
of large poison-fangs with obsolete grooves ; pterygoid teeth few or 
absent; mandibular teeth subequal. No postfrontals; prefrontals 
meeting, or narrowly separated on the median line, Head small, 
Fig. 29. 
Skull of Hlaps marcgravii. 
not distinct from neck; eye small, with vertically elliptic or 
subelliptic pupil; nostril between two nasals; no loreal. Body 
cylindrical; scales smooth, without pits, in 15 rows; ventrals 
rounded. Tail short; subcaudals in two rows or partly single, 
partly in two rows. 
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