16 I.IASIïi PEÏERSII, 



NOTE IV. 

 LIASIS PETERSII. N. SP. 



BY 



Dr. A. A. W. HÜBRECHT, 



Dec. 1878, 



In the August number of the » Monatsberichte der Akade- 

 mie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin", for 187G , p. 533 , Prof. 

 Peters notices a specimen of what he calls : Liasis amethy- 

 stinus , var. timoriensis , which was brought from Timor by 

 the German man-of-war » Gazelle" on her cruise in the Indian 

 and Australian seas. On the accompany ing plate he gives 

 figures of the head and anal region of this species , toge- 

 ther with corresponding drawings taken from a true 

 Liasis amethystinus. 



The above mentioned figures look different in many respects 

 and I was surprised to find in our museum a snake, hi- 

 therto undescribed , which corresponds , as far as the con- 

 figuration of the scales on its head goes , with Prof. Pe- 

 ters' socalled Timorese variety of Liasis amethystinvs. 



I cannot find the slightest difference between Prof. Peters' 

 figure and our specimen ; even the black line advancing 

 from the nape of the neck till between the parietals in 

 fig 3» might pass for the exact reproduction of the cor- 

 responding line in the specimen from Flores. 



But then a closer inspection immediately enforces the 

 conviction that this animal can never be a Liasis ame- 



Notes irom the Leytlen ]VIu.semn. 



