ELAPS SUNDERWALLII.— Smith. 
Reptilia. — Plate LXVI. 
E. superne, sordide brunneo ruber, infra subochreus ; dorso antice nigro-viridi-tincto ; corpore caudaque 
fasciis ochreis transversis variegatis, fasciarutn squamis brunneo rubro variegatis; capite antice 
angusto ; cauda brevi, apice conica aculeata. 
Colour.-— Chocolate-red, the upper surface of the head and back anteriorly 
tinted with blackish green. Body and tail variegated with twenty transverse 
ochre-yellow bands, each about half an inch in width, and about an inch 
apart ; the bands are also variegated, each scale being edged with chocolate- 
red. The lower jaw, the edge of the upper jaw, the temples inferiorly, and 
the under parts of the body and tail sienna-yellow. In recent specimens the 
bands are probably red. 
Form, &c.— Head, viewed from above, subtriangular, anteriorly narrow, 
nose nearly acute; hind-head rather broader than the neck. Body mode- 
rately slender, almost cylindrical, and nearly of the same thickness through- 
out ; tail cylindrical, slightly tapered, the apex conical and armed with a 
short horny spine. Rostral plate large, triangular, its apex lodged in a notch 
at the junction of the naso-rostral plates, the latter are narrow, the fronto- 
nasal plates large and six sided, the outer extremity of each descending 
between the freno-rostral and preocular plates, frontal plate six sided, the 
two anterior sides form an obtuse, the two posterior an acute angle, palpebral 
plates square behind, subangular anteriorly; occipital plate irregularly shaped, 
broad anteriorly, rather narrow posteriorly, freno-nasal subtriangular, its 
apex behind ; frenal wanting ; preocular plate subquadrangular ; postocular 
plates two, the uppermost the smallest and quadrangular, the lowermost five- 
sided, two of the sides behind. Plates of upper lip exclusive of rostral seven, 
the anteriormost small and triangular, the others much deeper, the sixth and 
seventh much the largest and cover the lower portion of the temples. Plates 
of lower lip, exclusive of mental, six, the last much the longest ; the mental 
