94 COPHIAS LANCEOLATUS. 



Discovered by Dr. Spix, on the banks of the river Japura, in 

 Brasil. 



ELAPS MICRURUS.— fyntfs Elaps. 



Spec. Char. Body pale fawn colour, with equi- 

 distant broad black bands; scales tipped with dark 

 brown ; length three feet eight inches. 



Micrurus Spixii ; Spix et IVagler, Serp. Bras. p. 48, t. 18. 



Inhabits Brasil. 



XVII. 



COPHIAS LANCEOLATUS, 



Spear-headed Cophias, or Yellow Viper of Martinico. 



Gen. Char. — Head widened behind, in some cases 

 covered with scales similar to those on the back, in 

 others shielded ; sub-caudal plates double ; a depres- 

 sion behind the nostrils ; poison-fangs in the upper 

 jaw ; tail generally terminating in a spinous process. 



Spec Char. — Body yellow variegated with brown ; head 

 flat, cordate, with a large plate above each eye ; a 

 large orifice on each side between the eyes and 

 nostrils. 



Coluber Mogoera; Shaw, Zool. iii. p.40f>. La Vipcre Fer-de-Lance ; La Cepede, 

 Hist. Nat. des Rept. ii. p. 121, t. 5, f. ] ; Daudin, Rept. vi. p. 28, t. GO, f. 19. 

 Trigonoceplialus lanceolatus ; Cuv. 



Tmsanimal, after the enormous Boa, the Python,and theAnaconda, 

 is one of the largest of the Ophidian order, being not unfrequently 



