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all strongly keeled, the keels forming oblique lines; ventrals 

 130 — 153; anal entire; subcaudals 14 — 22. 



Red-brown above, with a series of large, dark, black-edged 

 spots on the back, sometimes confluent into a zigzag stripe. 

 Lower surface yellow, uniform or brown-spotted. Length of 

 head and body 930 mm.; tail 55 mm. 



Habitat: Coram; Misol ! ; Batanta; Salawatti; Waigeu ! ; 

 New Guinea (Jobi, Sorong, Fak Fak, Andai, Mawes, Moaif, 

 Matterer Bay, Humboldt Bay!, Mosso river, Tami river, lake 

 Sentani!, Koime river!, Pokembo, Cyclop Mts., Parau, Kaiserin- 

 Augusta or Sepik river!, Mimika river, Lorentz river!, Eitape, 

 Bongu, Simpsonhafen, Berlinhafen, Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, 

 Erima, Stephansort, Astrolabe Bay, Bukaua, Sattelberg, Dinawa 

 in Owen Stanley Range, Madew on St. Joseph river 2 — 3000 

 feet); Seleo Island ; Valise Island ; Schouten Islands (Mysore). — 

 Duke of York Island; Bismarck Archipelago. 



Note. A specimen from Matterer Bay, N. New Guinea was 

 caught at sea. 



3. Enygrus australis (Montrouzier). 



Boa australis^ Montrouzier, Rev. et Mag. Zool. XII i86o, p. 95. 

 Enygrus australis^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 105. 



Snout prominent, truncate ; canthus rostralis rounded ; rostral 

 more broad than deep, not visible from above; head covered 

 with small, irregular scales with tubercles or short keels; 11 — 14 

 scales between the eyes on the forehead; eye bordered by 

 14 — 18 scales; ten to fourteen upper labials, separated from 

 the eye. Scales in 37 — 41 rows, all strongly keeled, the keels 

 forming straight lines; ventrals 232 — 295; anal entire; sub- 

 caudals 50 — 62. 



Brown, olive or reddish above, with or without a series of 

 large dark spots, sometimes forming a zigzag band or a dark 

 vertebral stripe, edged with yellow; sometimes a series of 

 light spots along each side ; a dark streak on each side of the 

 head, passing through the eye and a dark bar between the 

 eyes. Lower surface uniform yellowish or spotted with black. 

 Length of head and body 990 mm.; tail 140 mm. 



Habitat: Woodlark Island. — Solomon Islands; Bismarck 

 Archipelago; New Hebrides; Loyalty Islands; Samoa. 



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Indo-australian reptiles II. 



