88 REPTILES 
251. Lroularsawa, Bonnat. Ophiol. 26. Constrictor Schneiderii, 
Wagler, Syst. Amph. 168. Fitz. Syst. Rept. 24. Seba, Thes. i. t. 
be Fe hvo, F 1,4. 80; foL 
The smaller of the two nasal plates without any longitudinal 
groove ; the frontal plate entire (or rarely divided into two), and not 
followed by other large symmetrical plates ; a single supra-ocular 
on each side ; rostral, with two front pairs of upper and six or seven 
hinder pairs of lower labial shields pitted; head with a narrow 
longitudinal brown stripe. 
a. In spirits. Head of half grown. India. Presented by General 
Hardwicke. 
b. In spirits. Young. Borneo. Presented by Capt. Sir Edward 
Belcher, K.C.B., R.N. 
e. In spirits. Young. Borneo. From Mr. Lowe’s collection. 
d. In spirits. Half grown. India. Presented by General Hard- 
wicke. 
e. Stuffed. Half grown. India. 
f. In spirits. Adult. India? Borneo. Presented by Capt. Sir 
Edward Belcher, K.C.B., R.N. 
g. In fluid. Adult. India. From Mr. Gardener’s collection. 
h. In spirits. Half grown; bleached. India? Old collection. 
“ Coluber molurus, Shaw, Brit. Mus. 
** Two pairs of front upper and three hinder lower labial shields 
pitted ; frontal plate double. Asterophis, Fitz. 
2. The Rock Snake. Python molurus, Gray, Zool. Misc. 44. 
Coluber molurus, Linn. S. N. ii. 225. Seba, i. t. 37, f. 1. Shaw, 
Zool. iii. 458, t. 116. Daud. Rept. vi. 239. C. Boaformis, Shaw, 
Zool. iii. 511. Python de la Sonde, Lesson, Belanger, Voy. Rept. 
316. Asterophis tigris, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 24. B. cinerea, Schn. 270. 
B. castanea, Schn. 272. B. albicans, Schn. 274. _ B. ordimata, 
Schn. Amph. ii. 260. Daud. Rept. v. 252 = Seba, Thes. i. t. 37, 
f.1. B. orbiculata, Schn. Amph. 276. Python.bivittatus, Schlegel, 
Phys. Serp. ii. 403, t.15, f. i—4.  Abbild. 55, t. 17, f. 11 (Java-_ 
nensis), not Kuhl. P. Poda, Boie. P. Javanicus, Kuhl. Fitz. N. 
Class. 54. PP. Tigris, Daud. Rept. y. 241, t. 64, f. 1. Gray, Ann. 
Phil. 1825, x. 209. Fitz. N. Class. 54. Merrem, 89. P. Bora, 
Russell, Ind. Serp. t. 39. Daud. Rept. v. 236. C. Pedda Poda, 
Russell, Ind. Serp. i. t. 22—24. Constrictor (Pedda Poda), Wag- 
ler, Syst. 168. Le Molure, Daub. Lacep. Quad. Ovip. ii. 218, t. 10, 
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