374 COLTJBEIDiE. 



B. 15 scales across the middle of the body ; a pair of large shields 

 behind the parietals 7. bungarus, p. 386. 



II. Scales in 15 or 17 rows on the neck. 



Sostral as deep as broad ; eye separated 

 from the labials by a series of sub- 

 oculars ; scales in 17 rows on the body. 8. anchietce, p. 387. 



Rostral broader than deep : fourth or third 

 and fourth labials entering the eye ; 

 scales in 15 rows on the body 9. goldii, p. 387. 



Bbstral broader than deep ; third and fourth 

 labials entering the eye ; scales in 13 

 rows on the body 10. guentheri, p. 388. 



1. Naia bai«» cyAXf^^-^ -^^ 



Seba, Thes. ii. pi. xt. fig. 1 (1736). 



Coluber haje, Linn, in Hasselq. Reise Palest, p. 366 (1762), and 8. N. 



i. p. 387 (1766) ; Forsk. Descr. Anim. p. 14 (1775). 



m-veViSij.Linn. S. N. i. p. 384. 



Cerastes candidus, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 83 (1768). 

 Coluber candidissimus, Laoep. Serp. ii. pp. 76 & 118 (1789). 

 Vipera nivea, Baud. Rept. vi. p. 39 (1803). 

 haje, Baud. t. c. p. 41 ; I. Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, Rept. p. 157, 



pi. vii. figs. 2, 4, & 5 (1827), and Suppl. p. 184, pi. iii. (1829). 

 Naja haje, Merr. Tent. p. 148 (1820) ; Jan, Rev. 8f Mag. Zool. 1859, 



p. 129 ; Peters, Reise n. Mossamh. iii. p. 137, pi. xx. figs. 7 & 8 



(1882) ; Boettg.Abh. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1883, p. 104; Tristram, Faun. 



Palest, p. 146 (1884) ; Valery Mayet, C.R. Ac. Sc. xcviii. 1884, 



p. 1296, 

 haje, part., Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 1298 ; A. Bum. Rev. 8r Mag. 



Zool. 1856, p. 554. 

 haje, var. annulifera, Peters, Man. JBerl. Ac. 1854, p. 624 ; 



Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1891, p. 152. 



haje, var. A, Gunth. Cat. p. 226 (1858). 



haje, var. viridis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 411, pi. i. 



fig. 1 ; Reichen. Arch.f. Nat. 1874, p. 293. 



Eye moderate, two fifths to one half the length of the snout. 

 Kostral a deep as broad or slightly broader than deep, its upper 

 portion measuring one half to two thirds its distance from the frontal; 

 internasals as long as the praefrontals ; frontal once and one fifth 

 to once and a half as long as broad, as broad as the supraocular, 

 shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, one half to 

 two fifths the length of the parietals ; one or several more or less 

 enlarged occipital shields behind the parietals ; one prseocular, not 

 in contact with the internasal ; two or three postoculars ; two or 

 three subooulars, separating the eye from the labials ; temporals 

 1 + 2 or 3: seven (rarely eight) upper labials, third deeper than 

 fourth, sixth (or seventh) largest and in contact with the lower 

 postocular ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior chin- 

 shields ; posterior chin-shields nearly as long as but narrower than 

 the anterior, and separated from each other by scales. 21-23 scales 

 across the neck, 19-21 across the middle' of the body. Ventrals 



