398 



COLUBBIDiE. 



Brit. Ind. p. 213 (1876); Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Kept. p. 384 

 (1890). 

 Elaps atrofi-ontalis, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Fkilom. (7) i. 1877, p. 111. 



Eye measuring at least two thirds its distance from the mouth. 

 Rostral broader than deep ; frontal as long as its distance from the 

 end of the snout, much shorter than the parietals ; one pree- and 

 two postooulars ; a single temporal ; seven upper labials, third and 

 fourth entering the eye ; two pairs of subequal chin-shields, the 

 anterior in contact with four or five labials. Scales in 13 rows. 

 Ventrals 205-247 ; anal divided ; suboaudals 21-32. Light bay 

 above, with a distant series of black dots along each side of the 

 back ; head and nape black, with one or two yellow bands on each 

 side ; lower parts red ; tail with two black rings. 



Total length 485 millim. ; tail 30. 



Burma, Cochinohina, Malay Peninsula. 



a. 5 (V. 205 ; C. 23). Rangoon. W. Theobald, Esq. [CI. 



b. Hgr. (V. 178 ; C. 20). Cochinohina. E. Cox-Smith, Em. [P.]. 

 $ (V. 204 ; C. 24). ? Zoological Society. 



(Type.) 



c 



4. Callophis macclellandii. 



Elaps macclellandii, Beinh. Calc. Journ. N. H. iv. 1844, p. 532, and 

 Fid. Meddel. 1860, p. 247. 



■ personatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 1855, p. 298. 



univirgatua, Giinth. Cat. p. 231 (1858). 



Callophis univirgata, Giinth. Proa. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 83, pi. xvii. 

 macclellandii, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 2l9, and Rept. 



Brit. Ind. p. 349 (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 214 



(1876) ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 385 (1890), and Ann. Mm. 



Geneva, (2) xiii. 1893, p. 327. 

 • annularis, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 350, pi. xxiv. fig. I ; 



Theob. I. 0. p. 212. 



Eye as long as or a little shorter than its distance from the 

 mouth. Rostral broader than deep ; frontal as long as or a little 

 longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as or 

 slightly shorter than the parietals ; one prse- and two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1-|-1 ; seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the 

 eye ; two pairs of small subequal chin-shields, anterior in contact 

 with three or four lower labials. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 

 182-240 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 25-34. Reddish brown above, 

 with regular, equidistant, black, light-edged transverse bars or 

 rings ; belly yellowish, with black cross-bands or quadrangular 

 spots ; head with two black cross-bands separated by a jfcllow one. 

 A variety distinguished by the presence of a black vertebral line ; 

 the transverse bars are replaced by transverse spots or altogether 

 absent. 



Total length 620 millim. ; tail 55. 



Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Southern China. 



