PYTHOK. 107 



Three species are known from the Malay Peninsula : — 



Rostral as deep as broad ; 4 upper labials 



pitted ; 09 to 79 scales across thickest part 



of body ; veutrals 297-330 ; subcaudals 78- 



102 pairs F. reticulatus, p. 107. 



Rostral broader than deep ; 2 upper labials 



pitted ; 61 to 75 scales round bodj^ ; ventrals 



242-265 ; subcaudals 00-72 R molunis, p. 108. 



Rostral broader than deep ; 2 upper labials 



pitted ; 53 to 57 scales round body ; ventrals 



160 175 ; subcaudals 20-32 P. cvrtus, p. 109. 



Fig. 32.— Head and anterior part of body of Ft/thon niolurus (A) and 

 P. reticiUaius (B). (After Sordelli.) 



114. Python reticulatus. 



Boa reticvlata, Schncid. Hist. Amph. ii, p. 264 (1801). 



P>jrhon reticulatus, Gray, Zool. Mi^c. p. 44 (1842) ; Cantor, Journ. 



'Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, p. 902 (1847) ; Glinth. Kept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 330 (1864) ; Bouleng-. Faun. Brit. Ind., Kept. p. 240 (1890); 



id. Cat. Sn. i, p. 85 (1893) ; S. Flower, P.Z. S. 1899, p. 654 ; 



Ridley, Journ. Straits Branch Rov. Asiat. Soc. 1899, p. 196 ; 



Klos.s' op. cit. 1900, p. 281. 



Malay name, Ular satvah. 



Rostral as broad as deep ; iuternasals about once and a half as 

 long as broad, followed by a pair of large proefrontals ; a large 

 supraocular (rarely divided) and a large, usually undivided frontal ; 



