506 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on Reptiles and 



17. Python rettculatus, Schneid. 

 Flores. 



18. GylindropMs opisthorhodus, sp. n. 



Diameter of eye about one third its distance from the 

 nostril ; the distance between the eyes greater than the 

 lengtli of the snout. Nasals forming a suture behind the 

 rostral ; frontal as large as the supraoculars, slightly larger 

 than the parietals, as long as its distance from the rostral ; 

 six upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye. Scales 

 in 23 rows. Ventrals but slightly larger than the adjacent 

 scales, 184-187 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 6-7. Pale brown 

 or buff above, with small black spots irregularly disposed ; 

 head yellowish, much spotted with black ; white beneath, with 

 continuous or broken and alternating black cross-bars, which 

 are connected on the sides by a black uninterrupted stripe 

 running from behind the head to the base of the tail ; a much 

 interrupted black stripe along the middle of the belly ; anal 

 region black ; lower surface of tail bright pink. 



Total length 230 millim. 



Lombok. Two specimens, obtained at an altitude of 

 1500 feet. 



19. Polyodontophis geminatus, Boie. 



Lombok. Two specimens, belonging to the typical form, 

 as known from Java. 



20. Lycodon aulicuSj Boie. 

 Sumba, Savu. 



21. Lycodon subctnctusj Boie. 

 Lombok. 



22. Coluber subradiatus, Schleg. 



Flores, Sumba. 



The specimen from Flores is typical, whilst that from 

 Sumba is of a uniform blackish brown above and beneath, 

 and has, on the right side, the subocular fused with the fourth 

 labial, so that tiiree labials enter the eye, as in C. enganensis, 

 Yincig. 



23. Dendrophis pi'ctuSj Gm. 

 Lombok, Flores. 



