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tail they are edged with black. Sent from S. America, 
PI. 220 + 108. — See Jameson^ s Journal. — Tr.] 
B. African species, only one is known. 
5. El APS HYGEiiE. Easily to be distinguished by the 
artificial character drawn from the presence of an undivided 
nasal plate, pierced by the nostrils ; vertical rather elon- 
gated ; six labials ; abdominal plates less broad than 
ordinary. S. 200 -+-28. Of small size; inhabits the 
Cape ; tints of great beauty ; yellowish ; above of a vivid 
red, ornamented with black bands, sometimes confluent ; 
below mottled with black. 
C. Asiatic species. 
6. El APS Coll ARTS. Perhaps identical with an Elaps 
said to be found in the Philippines. Form of Elaps Lem- 
niscatus, but with a short, thick, and depressed head ; the 
sixth vertical plate wide, and touching the occipitals. 
Deep brown ; below marked with red spots, of which the 
angles are continued on the sides ; neck ornamented with 
a collar. S. 229 -+ 17. 
7. Elaps trimaculatus, from India. Of very small 
size ; form extremely delicate ; tail everywhere of equal 
thickness ; above of a clear brown, with black dorsal ray, 
accompanied by other narrow rays on the sides. Head, 
tip of the tail, and anus black ; below yellowish ; tail 
white, speckled with black. S. 241 -f- 32. 
8. Elaps furcatus. 13 rows of scales : body filiform. 
S. 255 + 22. Head of same diameter as the trunk, and 
narrow ; above of a very dark brown ; a dorsal ray, 
bifurcated on the head, of a fine yellow, which passes into 
red on the tail ; a white ray on the sides. Above a lively 
green, with dark transverse bands. Size about 15 inches. 
Inhabits Java, and is also found in the peninsula of Ma- 
lacca and in Sumatra, where it forms a climatal variety. 
9. Elaps bivirgatus. A very beautiful and rare 
species, scarcely of the thickness of the little finger, with a 
length of three or four feet ; body extremely slender, 
cylindrical, and all of equal thickness ; tail longer than 
ordinary ; head nearly of same diameter with the body ; 
above of violet-blue, passing towards the tail into purple ; 
sides marked with a white ray, undulating and narrow ; 
