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a white band posteriorly ; thirty-eight black rings and thirty-seven white, the black 

 rings measuring upon the sides i inch, the white $ ; upon the back and abdomen the 

 dimensions of the white rings are somewhat greater ; the white rings upon the sides 

 each dotted with small black spots ; seven black bands upon the tail ; fifteen rows of 

 6mooth quadrangular scales. Abdom. scut. 189; pre and post-abdom. scut, one of 

 each, bifid; 51 bifid subcaudal. 



Dimensions. — Head, I inch in length; breadth, i inch; length of body, 15 inches; 

 of tail, 21 inches; circumference near middle, If in.; total length, 18f inches. 



Habitat. — Honduras. Two specimens, presented to the Museum of the Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, by Dr. Woodhouse. 



Elaps divaricatus, nob. 



Char. — Nothing remarkable about the plates of the head, except that the vertical 

 is somewhat prolonged ; a loral reaching to the orbit; two post-orbitars; seven superior 

 labials, the eye resting on the third and fourth ; nostrils between two plates ; head 

 narrow, depressed about half an inch in length ; fifteen rows of smooth rhomboidal 

 scales; body quite slender; tail of moderate length. Abdom. scut. 205; subcaud. 45. 



Coloration. — Head black anteriorly and posteriorly, with an intermediate white 

 band ; thirteen crimson rings, from five-eighths to six-eighths of an inch in length, 

 and as many black ones about three-eighths of an inch, the latter bordered each with 

 a narrow ring of white ; the red rings occupy about eight and a half rows of scales, 

 the black three and two half rows, and the white one and a half rows of scales ; the 

 dark-colored white margined rings are therefore much- less, and the intermediate 

 crimson ones much more extended than in E. fulvius, and hence the name divaricatus 

 which I have given it ; four black and three white rings upon the tail, the yellow 

 about half the length of the black, intermediate red spaces without dots. 



Dimensions. — Length of head, J inch ; breadth, -*? inch ; length of body, 16 inches ; 

 of tail, 2f inches; circumference, 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Honduras. A single specimen, presented to the Museum of the Acad. 

 Nat. Sciences, by Amory Edwards, Esq. 



Gen. remarks. — Allied to Elaps tenere, Baird and Girard, from Texas : perhaps the 

 same. 



Besides the above there were received from Dr. Woodhouse a fine specimen of 

 Corythaeolus vittatus 9 , Kaup ; Iguana tuberculata, Laurenti ; and Cyclura denticulata, 

 Wieg., from Nicaragua, and a young undetermined species of Crotalus, from Mr. 

 Edwards. 



