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what is more remarkable is the prevalence of the non-venomous 

 Colubrine forms of India and Malacca, and the absence of the 

 venomous Australian forms. It would be interestiug to know 

 whether Signor D'Albertis' experience on this point agrees with 

 mine. He has, I am told, brought with him from Katow, a very 

 fine collection of Reptiles, but they are all destined, I believe, 

 to enrich foreign Museums. 



The other localities at which Snakes were collected during the 

 voyage were, the Islands of Torres Straits and Hall Sound, New 

 Guinea, but as will be seen in the detailed account given below, 

 they are neither remarkable nor numerous. 



Family PYTHONID^E. 



1. — MOEELIA VARIEGATA. 



Gray, Zool. Misc. 43, 44; Cat. Brit. Mus., Snakes, part VI., 

 p. 86 ; KrefFt, Snakes of Australia, p. 31. 



Morelia Argus, var. c. Dum. and Bibr. Erp. Gen. VI., pp. 

 386-389. 



This species seems to have a very wide range. It is common 

 over the whole interior of New South Wales, where it is known 

 as the " Carpet Snake," and there seems to be no part of 

 Queensland or Northern Australia in which it is not found. My 

 Chevcrt specimens are from Sue Island, Darnley Island, and Hall 

 Sound. One specimen from the last-named locality is probably 

 of a different species ; it seems proportionally thicker in the body 

 and shorter in the tail than the others, and is of a generally 

 darker colour, with the ventral shields greenish white, barred 

 with blackish green. 



2. — LlASIS AMETHYSTINUS. 



Gray. Zool. Misc. 44 ; Dum. and Bibr. Erp, Gen. VI., p. 432 ; 

 Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus., Snakes, part 1, p. 91 ; Krefft, Snakes of 

 Austral., pi. 5, figs. 5-5a. 



Boa amethystina, Schneid. Amph. 2, p. 254 ; Denk. Akad., 

 Munch, 7, t.7. 



