241. BLAPS. 417 
the posterior third of the parietals; a small yellow spot on each 
supraocular ; temples yellow. 
Total length 505 millim.; tail 70. 
Northern Brazil, Eastern Ecuador. 
a. od (V. 202; C. 43). Para. 
b. Yg. (V. 211; C.39). | Canelos, E. Ecuador. Mr. Buckley [C.]. 
7. Elaps anomalus. (Puars XXII. fig. 2.) 
Eye as long as its distance from the mouth. Rostral broader 
than deep; frontal broader than the supraocular, once and a half 
as long as broad, a little longer than its distance from the end of 
the snout, as long as the parietals; latter as long as their distance 
from the internasals ; a narrow azygous shield separating the pre- 
frontals* ; one pre- and two postoculars; temporals 1+1; seven 
upper labials, third scarcely larger than fourth, third and fourth 
entering the eye; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 
chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 15 rows, 
Ventrals 227; anal divided; subcaudals 29, Body with 55 black 
cross-bands separated by narrow brownish-white, black-dotted 
interspaces two or three scales wide; the black bands taper to a 
point on the sides, only a few extending across the belly to form 
complete rings; belly yellowish (red ?) ; anterior half of head black, 
posterior half yellow ; tail yellow (red?) with four black rings. 
Total length 280 millim. ; tail 23. 
Colombia. 
a. Yg. (V. 227; C. 29). Colombia. Mr. F, A. Simons [C. ]. 
8. Elaps heterozonus. 
Elaps heterozonus, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. 1881, p. 52. 
P Elaps corallinus, var. obscura, Jan, Icon. Gén. 41, pl. vi. fig, 3 
(1872). 
Eye nearly as long as or a little longer than its distance from the 
mouth. Rostral a little broader than deep; frontal broader than 
the supraocular, once and a half as long as broad, as long as its 
distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; latter 
as long as their distance from the internasals; one pre- and two 
postoculars; temporals 14+1; seven upper labials, third larger 
than fourth, third and fourth entering the eye; four lower labials 
in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than 
the posterior, Scalesin 15 rows. Ventrals 210-219; anal divided ; 
subcaudals 16-23. Red or brown, most of the scales tipped with 
black, with 17 to 23 subequal black rings mostly narrower than 
the interspaces; the first annulus with an angular prolongation 
reaching the occiput ; shields on the snout edged and spotted with 
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* Probably an individual anomaly, 
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