241. SLAPS. 



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241. ELAPS. 



Elaps, part., Schneid. Sisf. Amph. ii. p. 289 (1801) ; Wagler, Syst. 



Amph. p. 193 (1830) ; Schleg. Phys. 8erp. ii. p. 435 (1837) ; Bum. 



^ Bibr. Erp. Gin. vii. p. 1191 (1854); Gunth. Cat. Col. Sn. 



p. 229 (1858) ; Jan, Rev. <§• Mag. Zool. 1858, p. 516. 

 Micrurus, Wagler, in Spix, Serp. Bras. p. 48 (1824). 

 Elaps, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 84 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 



1862, p. 636; Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xir. 1892, p. 679;. 



Stejneger, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. f. 1893, p. 358 (1895). 



Maxillary very short, extending beyond the palatine, with a pair 

 of large poison-fangs with obsolete grooves ; pterygoid teeth few or 

 absent ; mandibular teeth subequal. No postfrontals ; prsefrontala 

 meeting, or narrowly separated on the median line. Head small. 



Fig. 29. 



Skull of Maps marcgravii. 



not distinct from neck; eye small, with vertically elliptic' or 

 Bubelliptic pupil; nostril between two nasals; no loreal. Body 

 cylindrical; scales smooth, without pits, in 15 rows; ventrals 

 rounded. Tail short; subcaudals in two rows or partly single, 

 partly in two rows. 

 America. 



