318 Zoological Society :— . 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
November 12, 1861.—Dr. J. E. Gray, V.P., in the Chair. 
DESCRIPTION OF A New Species OF ELAPOMORPHUS FROM 
Brazit. By Dr. OrnHo Wucuerer, Corr. Mens. 
ELAPOMORPHUS SCALARIS. 
Eight upper labials, the fourth and fifth touching the eye, the 
seventh largest. Scales in seventeen rows ; 128-130 ventral shields ; 
dirty brick-red above ; head brownish, with a black narrow dorsal 
streak traversed by short black bands; narrow black spots on the 
sides. 
Hab. Caiiavieras, Matta de S. Joao, Bahia. 
Description.—The body of moderate length, almost cylindrical ; 
belly flat ; the tail short. Head moderate, distinct, with flat crown ; 
the cleft of mouth moderate; rostral shield triangular, almost reaching 
the surface of the head, recurved, concave, the inferior edge slightly 
protruding ; three frontals, two anterior and one posterior, the former 
small, almost triangular, very narrow in the antero-posterior direc- 
tion, the posterior one very large ; one nasal pierced by the nostril ; 
nostril large, lateral; superciliary shield small; one anterior, two 
posterior oculars, the anterior large, high, forming a short suture 
with the vertical ; loreal elongate ; vertical moderate, almost trian- 
gular; occipitals large, forked behind; one temporal, sometimes 
two, one behind the other, touching the inferior posterior ocular ; 
upper labial shields eight, the fourth and fifth touching the eye, 
the seventh largest; eye moderate, sublateral, pupil round ; scales 
rhombic, not truncated, smooth, equal, without any groove, a few in 
the middle row of the tail larger, in seventeen rows; posterior tooth 
longest, grooved ; two pair of chin-shields. Snout and part of crown 
brown and bluish iridescent, irregularly speckled with black ; lips 
white ; the back is of a dirty brick-colour: a black streak, of the 
breadth of the middle dorsal row of scales, runs along the body almost 
to the tip of the tail; this is crossed by short, transverse, black 
bands, some of which do not correspond exactly in their lateral 
halves; on the sides a line of narrow, almost linear, black spots ; 
underneath uniform yellowish white. 
Dimensions of two specimens :— 
Weneth OF head. i. S 4. io sst'say) OPOL0 0013 
duenipth or tall sega 61050. 8 0:040 0°055 
RGus Nettie fees Sees o 0 0°320 0°250 
Wentral Shiclds’.'>.%<. osc sto 128 34 
Subcaudal shields ..,....... 130 34 
The smaller specimen is in the British Museum. The larger spe- 
cimen was sent to me from Cafiavieras. It was injured in the head, 
and a few characters are not recognizable; the smaller corresponds 
with it in every particular. I received it from M. C. Gayleard, from 
the Matta de S. Joao, a few leagues south from the city of Bahia. 
