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Scales in 49 — 55 rows; vcntrals 267 — 302; anal entire; sub- 

 caudals 64 — 49. 



Brown above, with scattered, small, yellowish and dark 

 brown spots. Lower surface yellowish or brownish. Length of 

 head and body 1420 mm.; tail 260 mm. 



Nom. indig. Ular menke (Timor). 



Habitat: Savu!; Samao!; Timor!, 



3. Liasis tornieri Werner. 



IJasis Tornieri, Werner, Zool. Anz. XX 1897, p. 261 ; Vcrh. Ges. Wieii LI 

 190I, p. 611. 



Rostral two times as broad as deep, clearly visible from 

 above, with a shallow groove on each side; internasals one 

 time and a half as long as broad, two thirds the length of the 

 praefrontals, which separate the posterior pair of small prae- 

 frontals; frontal about one time and one fourth as long as 

 broad, as long as its distance from the rostral; a pair of parie- 

 tals; a single large loreal; a large praeocular, with a very 

 small subocular below it (on one side); three elongate post- 

 oculars; eleven upper labials, first to third with a groove, fifth 

 and sixth entering the eye; three posterior lower labials 

 grooved. Scales in 65 rows; ventrals 375; anal entire; sub- 

 caudals 86, of which the first four are paired, the next four 

 single, 65 paired and 13 single. 



Brown above; head with dark dots. Lower surface yellowish- 

 white. Length of head and body 1330 mm.; tail 220 mm.; 

 attains a length of 2 M. (After WERNER; not seen by me). 



Habitat: New Guinea (Stephansort). 



4. Liasis albertisi Ptrs. & Doria. 



Liasis albertisii^ Peters & Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. (Icnova XIII 1878, p. 401, 



pi. Ill, fig. 2. 

 Leiopython gracilis^ Hubrecht, Notes Leyden Mus. I 1879, p. 15. 

 Liasis albertisi i^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 80. 



Rostral more broad than deep, just visible from above, with 

 a groove or pit on each side; internasals a little more long 

 than broad, not half as long as the praefrontals; praefrontals 

 large, in a single pair; frontal a little more long than broad, 

 shorter than its distance from the tip of the snout; a pair of 

 parietals, followed by small shields; a single, large loreal; a 



