4. PYTHON. 85 



3, Python timorensis. 



Liasis amethystinus, vav. tiinorit'n.sis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, 



p. 633, pi. — . iig. 3. 

 petersii, Huhrecht, Notes Leyd, Mus. i. 1879, p. 10. 



Eostral just visible from above ; intcrnasals corsidcrably longer 

 than broad, as long as the pra)f'rontals behind them, which are 

 separated from the frontal l)y a second pair of somewbat smaller 

 pra;frontals ; a largo supraocular and a large frontal, followed by 

 two pail's of parietals ; several small shields on the lorcal region ; 

 a larger pra30cular, with a smaller one below it ; three i)ost- 

 oculars ; twelve upper labials, four anterior deeply pitted, sixth 

 entering the eye ; five lower labials deej)ly pitted. Scales in 60 

 rows. Ventrals 288. Piir2)lish brown al)ovc, with a network of 

 patches of darker scales distributed among others of a lighter colour, 

 resembling the pattern found in P. reticulatus ; a dark Hue along 

 the middle of the back of the head. 



Timor and Flores. 



4. Python reticulatus. 



Seba, Thcs. i. pi. Ixxii. fig. 2 (1734), and ii. pis. Ix.xix. & Ixxx, 



tig. 1(1735). 

 Boa reticulata, Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 204 (1801); Daud.JRept. 



V. p. 116 (1803) ; Schneid. Denkschr. Ak. Miinch. vii. 1821, 



p. 118. 



rhombcata, Schneid. II. cc. pp. 200,118. 



phrygia, Shcnv, Zoal. iii. p. 318, pi. xcvii. (1802). 



f'oluber javanicus, S/iatc, t. c. p. 441. 



Python schneideri, Merr. Tent. p. 89 (1820); Boie, Isis, 1827, 



p. 515 ; Giier. Icon. li.A., liept. pi. xxi. fig. 1 ; Schley. Phi/s. Serp. 

 ■ ii. p. 415, pi. XV. figs. 5-7 (1837). 

 • reticulatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 44 (1842) ; Bum: S)- Bihr. vi. 



p. 420 (1844); Ccmtor, Cat. Mai. liept. p. 55 (1847) ; Gray, Cat. 



p. 87 (1849); Giinth. Kept. Brit. Lid. p. 330 (1864); Jan, Icon. 



Gen. p. 97, 1. 8, pi. vi. (1804) ; Stoliczka, Jovrn. As. Soc Beny. 



xxxix. 1870, p. 205 ; Thcuh. Cat. liept. Brit. hid. p. 205 (lb70) ; 



Boiden;/. Faun. I?id., liept. p. 240 (1890). 

 ? Python jamesouii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 44. 



Eostral as broad as deep, visible from above ; internasals about 

 once and a half as long as broad, followed by a pair of large pra^- 

 frontals ; a large supraocular (rarely divided) and a large, usually 

 undivided frontal.; two pra3- and three or four postoculars ; twelve 

 to fourteen upper labials^ four anterior deeply pitted, seventh or 

 eighth entering the eye ; two or three of the anterior and five or six 

 of the posterior lower labials pitted. Scales in 69-79 rows. Ven- 

 trals 297-330 ; anal entire; subcaudals 78-102. Light yellowish 

 or brown above, with large circular, rhomboidal, or X-shaped 

 markings ; young with three longitudinal series of light, black- 

 edged s])ots ; a black line along the middle of the head, from the 

 end of the snout to the nape, and another on each side from behind 



