193. CALAMELAPS. 245 



loreal. Body cylindrical ; scales smooth, -without pits, in 17 rows ; 

 ventrals rounded. Tail short ; subcaudals in two rows. 

 Tropical Africa ? 



1. Elapotinus picteti. 



Elapotinus picteti, Jan, I. c, and Icon. O^n. 13, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1866). 



Eostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 as long as broad, shorter than the praefrontals ; frontal once and a 

 half as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the 

 snout, shorter than the parietals ; supraocular nearly as broad as 

 long; prseocular minute; a small postocular ; temporals 1+2; 

 seven upper labials, third in contact with the prsefrontal, third and 

 fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are a little longer than the posterior. 

 Scales in 17 rows. Ventrals 175 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 36. 

 Blackish above, with a white lateral line ; a white occipital collar ; 

 upper lip white ; brown beneath, outer ends of ventrals and outer 

 row of scales white. 



Total length 290 millim. ; tail 40. 



Habitat unknown. 



193. CALAMELAPS. 



? Choristodon {non Jonas), Smith, HI. Zool. S. Afr., Rept., App. p. 18 



(1849) ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 235. 

 Amblyodipsaa, part., Jan, Arch. Zool, Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 40. 

 Calamelaps, Ounth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, p. 26. 



Maxillary very short, with three or four teeth gradually increasing 

 in size and followed, after an interspace, by a large grooved fang 

 situated below the eye ; anterior mandibular teeth enlarged; Head 

 small, not distinct from neck ; eye minute, with round pupil ; nostril 

 in a divided or semidivided nasal ; no loreal ; no prseocular ; no 

 anterior temporal. Body cylindrical. Scales smooth, without pits, 

 in 17 to 21 (or 13?) rows; ventrals rounded. Tail very short,. 

 obtuse ; subcaudals in two rows. 



Tropical Africa ; South Africa ? 



Synopsis of the Species. 



Scales in 17 rows 1- unicolor, p. 245. 



Scales in 21 rows 2. polylepxs, p. 245. 



Scales in 13 rows 3. coneolor, p. 246. 



1. Calamelaps unicolor. 



Calamaria umcolor, P^inh. Vicknsh. Selsk. Skrift. x. 1843, p. 236, 



Amblyodip'sas unicolor, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1862, p. 41. 

 Calamelaps unicolor, Giinth. Ann. 4 Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. 1866, 

 p. 25. 



