Bogadjim, Bongu, Astrolabe Bay, Sattelberg 800 M., Bara 

 Bara, Albert Edward Range 6000 feet, Dinavva in Owen Stanley 

 Range, Milne Bay, St. Joseph river); Schouten Islands (Mysore). 



Subfamily Boinae. 



5. Enygrus Wagler. 



(WAGLER, Syst. Amph. p. 166, 1830). 



Head distinct from neck, covered with small scales; eye 

 with vertical pupil; praemaxillary without teeth; anterior teeth 

 large, posterior small. Body compressed, covered with keeled 

 scales. Tail short, prehensile; subcaudals single. 



Distribution. Moluccas; New Guinea; Polynesia. 



Key to the Indo-Australian species. 



A. Two or three labials entering the eye i. E. car hiatus p. 31. 



/>. A series of suboculars. 



1. Subcaudals 14 22 2. E. asper p. 32. 



2. Subcaudals 50 62 3. E, australis p. 33. 



i. Enygrus carinatus (Schn.). 



Boa carinata, Schneider, Hist. Amph. II 1801, p. 261. 

 Enygrus carinatus^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 107 (s. syn.). 



Snout very prominent, obliquely truncate; canthus rostralis 

 angular; rostral more broad than deep, not visible from above; 

 sometimes some supraocular scales enlarged; head with small, 

 irregular scales, with small tubercles or short keels, five to 

 ten scales between the eyes on the forehead; eye bordered 

 by 10 14 scales; ten to thirteen upper labials, two or three 

 entering the eye. Scales in 33 43 rows, all strongly keeled, 

 the keels forming straight lines; ventrals 160 200 ; anal entire; 

 subcaudals 38 56. 



Yellowish or pale reddish-brown above with dark brown 

 markings. Length of head and body 790 mm.; tail no mm. 



Habitat: Celebes (Minahassa); Sangir Islands; Salibabu 

 Islands!; Halmahera!; Ternate!; Batjan!; Ceram!; Ambon!; 

 Haruku!; Saparua!; Banda; Goram; Timor Laut; Misol; Batanta; 

 Salawatti; New Guinea (Jobi, Rubi, Dorei, Sorong, Andai, 

 Mansinam, Djamna Island, Wendesi, Mawes, Humboldt Bay, 

 Tanah Merah Bay!, Kaiserin-Augusta or Sepik river!, Mimika 

 river, Lorentz river, Tami, Bongu, Bogadjim, Simpsonhafen, 



