Colour: Black, with red or yellow annuli, a broad annulus between the narrow ones; occiput, upper lip, and temples yellow.
Total length, 720 millimetres; tail 65.
Habitat: Guianas, Colombia, Peru.
(15) E. tschudii.—Scales in 15 rows; 207-221 ventrals; 21-28 subcaudals.
Colour: Body with black annuli broader than the interspaces, disposed in sets; interspaces red and yellow; snout and occiput black.
Fig. 66.—Elaps fulvius (The Harlequin Snake, or Coral Snake). (After L. Stejneger.)
Total length, 430 millimetres; tail 35.
Habitat: Peru.
(16) E. dissoleucus.—Scales in 15 rows; 200 ventrals; 19 subcaudals.