312 THE REPTILES OF EGYPT. 
Series C. PEOTEEOGLYPHA. 
ELAPINAE. 
NAJA. 
Naja, Laur. Syst. Eept. 1768, p. 90. 
Body and tail cylindrical, moderately elongate; head rather short, scarcely distinct 
from the neck ; neck generally dilatable ; nostril between two nasals and the inter- 
nasal ; no loreal ; eye moderate, pupil round ; scales smooth, in oblique series, usually 
most numerous on the neck ; anal entire ; subcaudals divided or entire. A pair of 
large grooved poison-fangs at the anterior end of the maxilla which projects distally to 
the palatine ; one to three small grooved teeth at its posterior end ; anterior mandibular 
teeth longer than the posterior. 
Naja haje, Linn. (Plate XL1V.) 
Coluber haje, Hasselq. & Linn. Iter Palsest. 1757, p. 317 ; Linn. Mus. Adolph. Frid. ii. 1764, 
p. 46; Syst. Nat. i. 1766, p. 387; Forskal, Descr. Anim. 1775, p. 14. 
Coluber niveus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 1766, p. 384. 
Cerastes candidus, Laur. Syn. Rept. 1768, p. 83. 
Coluber candidissimus, Lacep. Hist. Nat. Serp. ii. 1789, p. f6 et p. 118. 
Vipera nivea, Daud. Rept. vi. 1803, p. 39. 
Vipera haje, Daud. Rept. vi. 1803, p. 41 ; Audouin, Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1829, p. 184, 
Rept. Suppl. pi. iii. figs. 1 i-I 3. 
La Vipere haje, Is. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1827, p. 157, pi. vii. 
figs. 2, 4, & 5. 
Vipera {Na'ia) haje, Is. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, op. cit. p. 157, pi. vii. figs. 2, 4, & 5. 
L' Aspic, Savigny, Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. Suppl. pi. iii. (dated 1813) ? 1829, figs. 1 i-l ?.. 
L' Aspic haje, Audouin, Descr. de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1829, p. 184. 
Naja haje, Merr. Syst. Amph. 1820, p. 148; Schlegel, Phys. Serp. ii. 1837, p. 471 ; A. Dum. 
Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1856, p. 554; Jan, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1859, p. 129; Peters, Mon. 
Berl. Ak. 1862, p. 276; Reiehen. Arch. f. Natur. 1874, p. 293; Gasco, Viagg. in Egitto, pt. ii. 
1876, p. 212; Miiller, Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel, vi. 1878, p. 616; Lataste, Le Natural. 1881, 
p. 371 ; Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. 1882, p. 137, pi. xx. figs. 7 &8; Boettger, Abh. Senck. 
Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 104; Keichenow, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berl. 1883, p. 150; Tristram, 
West. Palest., Rept. & Batr. 1884, p. 146 ; Valery Mayet, C. R. Ac. Sc. xcviii. 1884, p. 1296 ; 
Konig, Verh. (S.B.) nat. Ver. Bonn, 1892, p. 24 ; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1893-94, p. 92 ; 
Olivier, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii. 1894, p. 123; Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisboa, (2) iv. no. 14, 
1896, p. 100; Tornier, Kriechth. Deutsch-Ost-Afr., Rept. & Amph. 1897, p. 84. 
Uraus haje, Wagler, Syst. Amph. 1830, p. 173. 
