420 COLTJBEIDJS. 



and three fourths as long as broad, longer than its distance from- 

 the end of the snout, as long as the parietals ; latter as long a* 

 their distance from the internasals ; one prae- and two postoculars ; 

 temporals 1 + 1 ; seven upper labials, third a little larger than- 

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

 contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are slightly shorter 

 than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 197-204 ; anal 

 divided ; subcaudals 50-53. Body with 8 or 9 sets of three black 

 annuli separated by very broad red interspaces, the scales on which 

 are tipped with black ; the median black annulus much.broaderthan 

 the outer, from which it is separated by a yellow annulus ; head 

 black above, separated from the black of the nape by a yellow 

 crescentic band extending to below the eyes and covering the 

 temples, the outer border of the parietals, and the occiput. 



Total length 410 millim. ; tail 65. 



Colombia. 



c. c? CV'. 197; C. 50). Carthagena. Oapt. Garth [P.> 



13. Elaps corallinus. 



Elaps corallinus, Wied, N. Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. x. i. 1820, p. 108,. 



pi. iv., and Abbild. Nat. Bras. (1825). 

 . corallinus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 440 (1837) ; Dum. 8f 



JBibr. vii. p. 1207 (1854) ; Giinth. Cat. p. 233 (1858), and Ann. ^ 



Mag. N. S. (3) iv. 1859, p. 173. 

 ornatissimus, Jan, Rev. 8r Mag. Zool. 1858, p. 521, Prodr^ 



pi. A (1859), and Icon. Gin. 42, p]. i. fig. 1 (1872). 



■ riisii, Jan, II. cc. p. 525, pi. B, and Icon. pi. vi. fig. 8. 



bocouitii, Jan, Icon. pi. vi. fig. 2. 



circinalis. Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1876, p. 182. 



coraUinuS; var. gastrosticta, Boettg. Ber. Sench. Ges. 1889,. 



p. 315. 



Eye measuring two thirds to three fourths its distance from the 

 mouth in the adult. Eostral broader than deep ; frontal a little 

 broader than the supraocular, once and a half to twice as long as 

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

 shorter than the parietals ; latter as long as their distance from the 

 internasals ; one prse- and two (rarely one) postoculars; temporals •, 

 1+1, the anterior sometimes fused with the sixth labial; six 

 upper labials, third as large as or a little larger than fourth, third ' 

 and fourth entering the eye ; three or four lower labials in contact 

 with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. 

 Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 179-231 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 

 30-47. Body with black annuli edged with yellow, separated by 

 red interspaces which may be more or less profusely spotted with 

 black ; head black above, temples, and often a more or less broad 

 band behind or partly on the parietals, yellow. 



Total length 790 miUim. ; tail 70. 



Tropical South America and Lesser Antilles (St. Thomas,, 

 St. Vincent, Martinique). 



