239. fubina; 



405 



in contact with the anterior cMn-sMelds, -which are as long as the 

 posterior. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 218 ; anal entire ; sub- 

 oaudals 26. Above with dark brown cross-bands, continuous with 

 the black ventral bars, separated by narrower yellowish interspaces 

 And divided by two pale reddish-brown stripes; beneath, barred 

 black and yellow (red?); head brown above, with a few small 

 yeUow spote ; a black blotch on each side, involving the eye and 

 ■edged with yellow. 



Total length 430 millim. ; tail 35. 



Philippine Islands. 



a. S (V. 218 ; C. 26). Philippines. S. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. (Type.) 



239. FURINA. 



Fig. 28. 



Skull of Furina oocipitalis. 



Furina, part., Dum.^Bibr. MSm. Ac. Sc. xiii. 1853, p. 517, and Erp. 



Gen. vii. p. 1236 (1854). ^ ^, 



Elaps, part., Dum. 8f Bibr. Erp. Gin. vii. p. 1191 ; Jan, Elenco stst. 



Ofid-V- 112 (1863). 

 Brachysoma, Gunth. Cat. Col. Sn. p 228 (1858) 

 VermiceUa, Gunth. I. c. p. 236, and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 87 ; 



Krefft, Sn. Austral p. 78 (1869). 

 Homaloselaps, Jan, Rev. Sr Mag. Zool 1858, p. 518. 

 Furina, Giinth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) ii. (1863), pp. 23 & 24; 



Kreft, I. c. p. 50. 

 Neelaps, OTreiA. i. c. p. 24. 

 Pseudelaps, part., Jan, Elenco sist. Ofid. p. 115. 



