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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 invariable refused to take any kind 

 of food. 



Genus Elaps, Schneider. 



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Elaps Bungaroides.* El. superne Uvidus, striis sagittalibus albis cinctus ; 

 infra albus alterne Uvidus. 



Scuta abdominalia 237. 

 Scutella subcaudalia 46. 

 Habitat. Chirra Punji. 



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

 nately white and black-blue. 



Elaps flaviceps. El. capite flavo, dorso nigro vitta serrata alba cceruleo 

 pallide nitente utrinque circumdato, cauda jlava linea nigra media 

 divisa ; — abdomine fiavo linea 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 blach dorsal line ; the abdominal surface yellow, inclosed 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, maculis 

 nigris alba-mar ginatis, lineis nigris junctis ; — cauda fasciis daubus nigris 



* From its resemblance to Bungarus cceruleus, Daudin. 



