from it by a small shield; a second pair of much smaller 

 praefrontals, separated from one another by the first pair of 

 praefrontals; frontal about one time and a half as long as 

 broad, slightly shorter than its distance from the tip of the 

 snout; one or two pair of parietals; a single large loreal; one 

 prae- and two postoculars; ten to twelve upper labials, first 

 with a shallow pit, fifth and sixth or sixth and seventh entering 

 the eye; three or four posterior lower labials pitted. Scales in 47 

 or 49 rows; ventrals 275 — 291 ; anal entire; subcaudals 65 — 72. 



Brown above; yellowish below. Length of head and body 

 1 140 mm.; tail 190 mm. 



Habitat: Timor'); New Guinea (Fly river!). — Islands of 

 Torres Straits; N. Australia. 



2. Liasis mackloti D. & B. 



Liasis vtackloti^ Dum. & Bibr., Erp. Gen. VI 1844, p. 440. 

 Liasis mackloti^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 79. 



Rostral more broad than deep, scarcely visible from above, 

 with a feeble pit on each side; internasals a little more long 

 than broad, hardly half the length of the praefrontals, which 



F"ig. 7. /Jasis mackloti D, & R. X '''A- 



separate the posterior, smaller pair of praefrontals; frontal 

 about one time and a half as long as broad, as long as its 

 distance from the tip of the snout; a pair of parietals, followed 

 by smaller shields; a large loreal; one prae- and two post- 

 oculars; eleven upper labials, first and second pitted, fifth and 

 sixth entering the eye; five posterior lower labials pitted. 



l) See Bethencourt Ferreiia, J. Sc. Lisboa (2) V 1898. p. 154. 

 Indo-australian reptiles II. 



