241. ELAPs. 417 



the posterior third of the parietals ; a small yellow spot on each 

 supraocular ; temples yellow. 



Total length 505 millim. ; tail 70. 



Northern Brazil, Eastern Ecuador. 



a. (J (V. 202 ; C. 43). Para. 



6. Yg. (V. 211; 0. 39). Oanelos, E. Ecuador. Mr. Buckley [0.]. 



7. Elaps anomalus. (Plate XXII. fig. 2.) 



Eye as long as its distance from the mouth. Eostral hroadesr 

 than deep ; frontal broader than the^ supraocular, once and a half 

 as long as broad, a little longer than its distance from the end of 

 the snout, as long as the parietals ; latter as long as their distance 

 from the internasals ; a narrow azygous shield separating the prje- 

 frontals*; one prae- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 1; seven 

 upper labials, third scarcely larger than fourth, third and fourth 

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

 chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. 

 Ventrals 227 ; anal divided ; suboaudals 29. Body with 55 black 

 cross-bands separated by narrow brownish-white, black-dotted 

 interspaces two or three scales wide ; the black bands taper to a 

 point on the sides, only a few extending across the beUy to form 

 complete rings ; belly yellowish (red ?) ; anterior half of head black, 

 posterior half yellow ; tail yeUow (red ?) with four black rings 



Total length 280 miUim. ; tail 23. 



Colombia. 



a. Tg. (V. 227 ; C. 29). Colombia. Mr. F. A. Simons [C.]. 



8. Elaps heterozonus. 



Elaps heterozonus, Peters, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. 1881, p. 52. 

 ? Elaps corallinus, var. obscura, Jan, Icon. G6n. 41, pi. vi. liff. S 

 (1872). 



Eye nearly as long as or a little longer than its distance from the 

 mouth. Eostral a little broader than deep ; frontal broader than 

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

 distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; latter 

 as long as their distance from the internasals ; one prae- and two 

 postoculars ; temporals 1 -|- 1 ; seven upper labials, third larger 

 than fourth, third and fourth entering the eye ; four lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than 

 the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 210-219 ; anal divided ;. 

 suboaudals 16-23. Eed or brown, most of the scales tipped with 

 black, with 17 to 23 subequal black rings mostly narrower than 

 the interspaces; the first annulus with an angular prolongation 

 reaching the occiput ; shields on the snout edged and spotted with 



* Probably an individual anomaly, 

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