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Brownish, with numerous faint yellow transverse stripes ; the 

 hood marked with a white ring, not unlike the form of a mask, be- 

 hind which there are from three to five white rings ; — the anterior 

 part of the lower surface with alternate white and bluish-black rings ; 

 the posterior part iridescent-glaucous. 



A young specimen of this serpent lives at present in the Society's 

 Gardens in Regent's Park. The artificial temperature, 62° Fahr., 

 in which it is kept appears to agree very well with the serpent, 

 which in one respect offers a striking difference from the habits of 

 this genus when kept in captivity in India, for the keeper informs 

 me that it feeds occasionally upon living frogs and earth-worms, 

 and that it drinks milk ; while those in Dr. Russell's and in my 

 own possession in India, when deprived of liberty invariably refused 

 to take any kind of food. 



Genus Elaps, Schneider. 



Elaps bungaeoides*. El. superne lividus, siriis sagittalihus alhis 

 cinctus ; infra albus alterne lividus. 

 Scuta abdominalia 237. 

 Scutella suhcaudalia 46. 

 Habitat, Chirra Punji. 



Black-blue above, with white arrow-shaped stripes ; beneath, 

 alternately white and black-blue. 



Elaps flaviceps. El. capite Jlavo, dorso nigro vittd serratd 

 alba cceruleo pallide nitente utrinque circumdalo, caudd Jlavd 

 lined nigra media divisd ; — abdomine Jlavo lined nigra utrinque 

 incluso. 



Scuta abdominalia 275. 



Scutella subcaudalia 45. . 



Habitat. Malacca. 



The head yellow, the back with a serrate band on each side, 

 shining with a pale sky-blue colour ; the tail yellow, divided in the 

 middle by a black dorsal line ; the abdominal surface yellow, in- 

 closed on each side by a black line. 



On my late visit to Copenhagen, Professor Reinhard pointed out 

 an undescribed species of Bungarus from Java, preserved in the Royal 

 Museum of Natural History (MSS. Cat., No. 128), which exhibits 

 the same distribution of colours as the Elaps flaviceps, viz. the head 

 and tail of a light yellow, the back bluish-black, the abdominal 

 surface light yellow, the scuta marked with a short black transverse 

 band or check on each side. 



Elaps nigromaculatus. El. superne pallide brunneo-rubescens, 

 viaculis nigris albo-marginatis, lineis nigris junctis ; — caudd 

 fasciis duabus nigris albo-marginatis cinctd ; abdomine Jlavo 

 albescenli, alterne livido, lined nigra serratd utrinque incluso. 

 Scuta abdominalia 238. 

 Scuta subcaudalia 24. 

 Habitat. Sincapore. 



• From its resemblance to Bungarus camleus, Daudin. 



