the eye to the angle of the mouth ; lower parts yellowish, with 

 small brown spots on the sides, or nearly entirely brown. 



Total length 4780 millira. ; tail OGO. lleaches the length of 

 9 metres (30 feet). 



Burma and Indo-China, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 



Pinano:. 



a-b,c. Yg. (So. 71, 75, 75; 

 V. 315,320,300; C. 06, 

 01, 84). 



d. Hgr. (Sc. 75 ; V. 316 ; 

 C. 04). 



e. Yg. (Sc. 73 ; V. 310 ; C. 07). Borneo. 



/. Yg. (Sc. 73 ; V. 308 ; 0. 03). Kejang River, 



Sarawak. 

 g. Hgr. (Sc. 75 ; V. 304 ; 



C. 02). 

 h. Yg. (Sc.75; Y. 310; 



C. 78). 

 i-k. $ (Sc. 75 ; V. 312 ; 



C. 81) & vg. (Sc. 77; 



V. 303; QuM). 

 I. Yg. (Sc. 70; V:315; 



C. 83). 

 m. Yg. (Sc. 77 ; V. 327 ; 



C. 84). 

 n. Ad., stffd. 



Singapore. 



Batavia. . 



Philippines. 



Ternate. 



N. Coram. 

 Timor Laut. 



Dr. Cantor. 



Dr. Dennys [P.]. 



Sir J. Brooke [P.]. 

 Brooke Low, Esq. [P.]. 



R. Kirkpatrick, Esq. 



[Po- 

 ll. J. Yeitch, Esq. [P.]. 



n.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



II. 0. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



5. Python sehse. 



Seba, Thes. ii. pis. xix. fifj'. 1, xxvii. lig. 1, Sc xeix.fig. 2 (1735), 

 Cohiber seba;, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 1118 (1788) ; Baud. liept vi. p. 238 



(1803). 



speciosus, Bonnat. Encycl. Meth., Opldol. p. 17 (1700). 



Boa hieroglvphica, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 266 (1801), and DcuTischr. 



Ak.Mmich.yn. 1821, p. 110. 

 ? Pytliou houttuynii, Baud. JRept. v. p. 254 (1803). 

 Python hieroglvphicus, 3Ierr. Tent. p. 00 (1820) ; Boie, Isis, 1827, 



p. 510. 



bivittatus, Kidd, Bcitr. Zool. Vcryl. Anat. p. 94 (1820). 



■ natalen.sis, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Juurn. (2) 1833, p. 64, and III. 



Zool. S. Afr., Bept. pi. ix."(1840) ; Bum. <S,-Bibr. vi. p. 400 (1844) ; 



Vcters, JReise n. Mossamh. iii. p. 105 (1882). 



bivittatus, part., Schleg. Phys. Ser^y. ii. p. 403 (1837). 



sebje, Bion. 8f Bibr. t. c. p. 400, pi. Ixi. ; Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 06, 



1.8, pis. iii. &iv. (1864). 

 Heleionomus variegatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 43 (1842) *. 

 Hortulia nataleusis, Gray, I. c. p. 44, and Cat. p. 80 (1840). 

 sebse, Gray, Cat. p. 00. 



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

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

 frontals ; supraocular broken up into two or more shields ; a pair of 

 froutals, which may be broken up into small shields ; a large ])ra;- 

 ocular, with one or two smaller ones below it ; three or four post- 



* 'J'lie type spccimeu appears to have been lo&t. 



