30. ELAPOIDES. 307 



bular teeth subeqiial. Head not distinct from neck ; eye small, 

 ■CT'ith round pupil; nostril large, between two nasals, the posterior 

 of which is concave ; no prseocular, loreal and prsefrontal entering 

 the eye. Body cylindrical, slender; scales lanceolate, keeled, 

 without apical pits, in 15 rows ; ventrals rounded. Tail long, sub- 

 caudals in two rows. Hypapophyses developed throughout the 

 vertebral column. 

 Malay Archipelago. 



1. Elapoides fuscus. 



Elapoides fuscus, Boie, I. c. ; Bum. <§• Bibr. p. 123 (1854) ; Gunth. 



Cat. p. 15 (1858) ; Jan, I. c. p. 21, and Icon. Gdn. 12, pi. i. figs. 2 



& 3 (1865). 

 Calamaria elapoides, Schleq. Ph/s. Serp. ii. p. 44, pi. i. flffs. 31-33 



(1837). 



Snout short, broadly rounded ; rostral much broader than deep, 

 just visible from above ; suture between the internasals as long as 

 or a little shorter than that between the prsefrontals ; frontal at 

 least as broad as long, much shorter than the parietals ; supraocular 

 very small, the prsefrontal entering the eye ; a single very small 

 postocular, in contact with a narrow, elongate temporal ; six upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye, fifth very large ; three or 

 four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which 

 are about as long as the posterior. Scales strongly keeled, in 15 

 rows. Ventrals 146-158 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 74-91. Dart 

 brown or brown and yeUow above ; uniform yellowish inferiorly, 

 passing to brown or brownish on the tail. 



Total length 470 millim. ; tail 120. 



Java, Sumatra. 



A. Uniform dark brown above. 



a. 2 (V. 147 ; 0. 75). .Tava. Ley den Museum. 



b. 5 (V. 155 ; C. 76). Java. 



c-<i. <^ (V. 148, 146 ; Willis Mountains, Baron v. Huegel [C.]. 



C. 87, 91). Kediri,Java,5000 ft. 



B. Dark brown above, with small yellow spots. 



e. 2 (V. 152 ; 0. 74). Willis Mts., 6000 ft. Baron v. Huegel [C.]. 

 /. 2 (V. 158 ; 0. ?). Java. Hr. Friihstorfer [C.]. 



C. Anterior half of body yellow, with a dark brown vertebral stripe 



and a series of small dark brown spots on each side ; posterior 

 half of back uniform dark brown. 



g. 2 (V. 147 : C. ?) Sumatra. Dr. Bleeker. 



{Blaphis sumatranus, Blkr.) 



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