254 REPTILES FROM NEW GUINEA. 



von Rosenberg quite agrees with our new specimen in the 

 absence of the suture between frontal and frontonasal , 

 whilst in our other specimens of this species the length of 

 this suture varies very much. In the collections of the 

 Ley den Museum this species was till now represented by 

 6 specimens , viz. Schlegel's type from New Guinea , one 

 specimen from Audai, two specimens from the Aroe-islands, 

 one from the island of Cerara , and one specimen from the 

 island of Wahaay (N. E. of Ceram). All these specimens 

 show the typical coloration figured in Schlegel's Abbil- 

 dungen pi. III. 



17. Triholonotus novae'guineae Schl. 

 Two specimens agreeing with Schlegel's types. 



Op hi dia. 



1. Python amethystinus Schneid. 

 Three specimens. 



2. Chondropython viridis Schl. 

 One specimen. 



3. Enygrus carinatus Schneid. 

 Several specimens. 



4. Enygrus asper Gthr. 



Several adult and young specimens. 



5. Tropidonotus picturatus Schl. 



One specimen, with 15 rows of scales, the outer row as 

 distinctly keeled as the others ; 3 post- and 2 praeoculars, 

 temporals 1 + 2, fourth and fifth labial entering the eye. 

 Ventrals 154, a divided aualshield, 88 pairs of subcaudals. 



6. Stegonotus modesUis Schl. 



Fifteen specimens, agreeing with Boulenger's description 

 of S. reticulatus , one specimen resembling the typical spe- 

 cimen of S. modestus in our Museum , and two specimens 

 having »the rostral a little broader than deep, the portion 

 visible from above measuring nearly half its distance from 

 the frontal" and in this point agreeing with «S. cucullatu.s, 

 but having the third and the fourth instead of the fourth 

 and the fifth upper labial in contact with the eye. When 



Notes from the Leyden Museuin, "Vol. X.VIII. 



