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its seventh labial shows a curious shape, it is entering the 

 eye, but a subocular is nearly formed (figured by BOULENGER, 

 Reptiles Malay Peninsula 19 12, fig. 30, p. 106). The dark form 

 found in Java may be named P. molurus sondaica Werner 

 (see: Der Zoologische Garten XL, 1899, p. 24). 



Fig. II. representing same specimens of fig. lo. a. Light Python [/*. wy///r«/.f (1..)] 

 b. Dark Python [P. bivittatus Schleg.] Nat. size. 



The specimen of P. molurus from Macassar, mentioned by 

 A.B.Meyer (Abh. Mus. Dresden 1886/87, p. 13) is not found 

 in the Dresden Museum. But the collections of this Museum 

 contain another specimen of the same species, collected by 

 RlBBE & KiJHN near Bonthain, S. Celebes. 



3. Python amethystinus (Schn.). 



Boa amethystina^ Schneider, Hist. Amph. II l8oi, p. 254. 

 Python amethystinus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 83 (s. syn.). 



Rostral as broad as deep or a little more broad than deep, 

 visible from above, with a deep pit on each side; internasals as 

 long as broad or a little more long than broad; praefrontals 

 large, a second pair of smaller praefrontals, separated from one 

 another; frontal large, in contact with the anterior pair of 

 praefrontals or separated from them by one or two shields; 



