78 lioiDiR. 



distinct larger darker spots disposed in five or six longitudinal 

 series ; a dark streak on eacli side of the head, passing through the 

 eye ; lips yellowish, spotted with brown ; lower parts uniform 

 yellowish. 



Total length 1200 miUim. ; tail 100. 



North Australia. 



a. Yg. (Sc. 41 ; V. 287 ; 

 C. 48). 



b. Hgr. (Sc. 43; V. 280 ; 

 C. 53). 



c. Yg. (Sc. 43; V. 2o7: 

 C. 49). 



d. Yg. (Sc. 43 ; V. 267 ; 

 C. 46). 



e. Yg. (Sc. 43 ; V. 270 ; 

 C. 45). 



f-h. 2 (Sc- 43, 43, 45 ; 



V. 277, 270, 270; 



C. ?, 40, 38). 

 l Hgr. (Sc. 45 ; V. 279 ; 



C. 45). 

 k. $ skel. 



N.W. Australia. 

 Port Essington. 

 Port Essington. 

 Port Darwin. 



(Type.) 



Mr. Dring [C.]. 



Mr. Gilbert [C.]. 

 (Type of Nardoa gilbert ii.) 

 R. G. S. Buckland, 

 Esq. [0.]. 

 Gulf of Carpentaria. G. Kreff t, Esq. [P.]. 



Rev. S. Macfarlane 



[C.]. 



Sir J. Richardson 



[P.]. 

 Mrs. Montague Levey 



[P.]. 



The specimens noticed by Krefft (Austral. Sn. p. 35) as Nardoa 

 gilberti would belong to a distinct species if the statement that they 

 have 330 ventrals and 64 subcaudals is correct. 



Islands of Torres 

 Straits. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



2. Liasis fuscus. 



Liasis olivaceus, part., Grai/, Cat. p. 92 (1849). 



fuscus, Peterf<, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 607. 



cornwallisius, Gilnth. Ann, ^ Mag. N. H. (5) iii. 1879, p. 85, 



fig. 

 Nardoa crassa, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. x. 1885, p. 66. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 louger than broad, not more than half as long as the prsefrontals ; 

 the latter shields extend to the frontal (unless separated from it by a 

 small azygous shield) and separate a second pair of much smaller 

 praefrontals ; frontal about once and a half as long as broad, a little 

 shorter than its distance from the end of the snout ; one or two 

 pairs of parietals ; a single large loreal ; one prae- and two post- 

 oculars ; ten to twelve upper labials, first with a shallow pit, fifth 

 and sixth (or sixth and seventh) entering the eye ; three or four of 

 the posterior lower labials pitted. Scales in 47 or 49 rows. 

 Ventrals 275-291 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 65-72. Uniform 

 brown above, yellowish beneath. 



Total length 1330 millim. ; tail 190. 



North Australia and New Guinea. 



a. Hgr. (Sc. 47 ; V. 291 ; 

 C. 68). 



Sir Charles Hardy Is 



J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



[P.]- 



