88 REPTILES 



251. L'oularsawa, Bonnat. Ophiol. 26. Constrictor Schneiderii, 

 Wagler, Si/st. Amph. 168. Fitz. Si/st. Rept. 24. Seba, Thes. i. t. 

 62, /. 2 ; ii. t. 79, f.\,t. 80, /. 1. 



The smaller of the two nasal plates without any longitudinal 

 groove ; the frontal plate entire (or rarely divided into two), and not 

 followed by other large symmetrical plates ; a single supra-ocular 

 on each side ; rostral, with two front pairs of upper and six or seven 

 hinder pairs of lower labial shields pitted; head with a narrow 

 longitudinal brown stripe. 



a. Inspirits. Head of half grown. India. Presented by General 



Hardwicke. 

 h. In spirits. Young. Borneo. Presented by Capt. Sir Edward 



Belcher, K.C.B., K.N. 



c. In spirits. Young. Borneo. From Mr. Lowe's collection. 



d. In spirits. Half grown. India. Presented by General Hard- 



wicke. 



e. Stuffed. Half grown. India. 



/. Inspirits. Adult. India? Borneo. Presented by Capt. Sir 



Edward Belcher, K.C.B., R.N. 

 g. In fluid. Adult. India. From Mr. Gardener's collection. 

 h. Inspirits. Half grown; bleached. India? Old collection. 



" Coluber molurus, Shaw\ Brit. Mus. 



■** Two pairs of front upper and three hinder loiver labial shields 

 pitted; frontal plate double. Asierophis, Fitz. 



2. The EocK Snake. Python molurus. Gray, Zool. Misc. 44. 

 Coluber molurus, Linn. S. N. ii. 225. Seba, i. t. 37, /. 1. ShaWy 

 Zool. iii. 458, t. 116. Daud. Rept. vi. 239. C. Boaformis, Shaw, 

 Zool. iii. 511. Python de la Sonde, Lesson, Belanger, Voy. Rept. 

 316. Asterophis tigris, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 24. B. cinerea, Schn. 270. 

 B. castanea, Schn. 272. B. albicans, Schn. 274. B. ordinata, 

 Schn. Amph. ii. 260. Daud. Rept. v. 252 = Seba, Thes. i. t. 37, 

 f. I. B. orbiculata, Schn. Amph. 276. Python bivitlatus, Schlegel^ 

 ^Phys. Serp. ii. 403, t. 15, /. 1—4. Abbild. 55, t. 17, /. 11 {Java- 

 nensis), not Kuhl. P. Poda, Boie. P. Javanicus, Kuhl. Fitz. N. 

 Class. 54. F.T\gv\s, Daud. Rept. y. 241, t. 64, f. 1. Gray, Ann. 

 Phil. 1825, X. 209. Fitz. N. Class. 54. Merrem, 89. P. Bora, 

 Russell, Ind. Serp. t. 39. Daud. Rept. v. 236. C. Pedda Poda, 

 Russell, Ind. Serp. i. t. 22 — 24. Constrictor (Pedda Poda), Wag- 

 ler, Syst. 168. Le Molure, Daub. Lacep. Quad. Ovip. ii. 218, 1. 10, 



