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compressed ; scales small, smooth. Tail moderate or short, not or 
but very slightly prehensile ; subcaudals all or greater part in two 
rows. 
Flores, Timor, Papuasia, North Australia. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
I. Several small loreal shields ; rostral not pitted; scales in 41 to 
45 rows; ventrals 257-287 ; subcaudals 38-53. 
1. childreni, p. 77. 
II. A single large loreal shield. 
A. Rostral not pitted ; two pairs of prefrontals. 
Scales in 47 to 49 rows; ventrals 275-291 ; 
Pl EY) i ey > 2. fustus, p. 78. 
Scales in 69 to 75 rows ; ventrals 349-361 ; 
subcaudals 100-102.............+.2-. 3. olivaceus, p. 79. 
B. A pit or groove on each side of the rostral. 
1, Two pairs of prefrontals ; scales in 53 to 55 rows; ventrals 
292-302 ; subcaudals 88-94 .... 4. mackloti, p. 79. 
2. A single pair of prefrontals. 
Scales in 49 to 55 rows; ventrals 262-284 ; 
subcaudals 62-79... ...........0ee00e: 5. albertisi, p. 80. 
Scales in 65 to 69 rows; ventrals 358-363 ; . 
subcaudals 85-88 ........00.-eeeees 6. papuanus, p. 80. 
1. Liasis childreni. (Puartx IV. fig. 1.) 
Liasis childreni, Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 44 (1842); Dum. & Bibr. 
vi. p. 438 (1844); Gray, Cat. p. 92 (1849). 
Nardoa gilbertii, Gray, Zool. Miscell, p. 45, and Cat, p. 93. 
Liasis maculosus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 608; Peters § 
ia, Ann, Mus. Genova, xiii. 1878, p. 403; Tt Miilter, Verh. 
nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1885, p. 677. ; 
Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above; internasals a 
little longer than broad, two thirds to three fifths the length of the 
anterior prefrontals; second pair of prefrontals in contact on the 
middle line or separated by a small shield; these posterior pra- 
frontals sometimes broken up into several shields; frontal about 
once and a half as long as broad, a little shorter than its distance 
from the end of the snout ; a pair of short parietals; three to ten 
loreal shields, some of which may be almost granular; two pra- 
and two to four postoculars; eleven to thirteen upper labials, 
without pits or with a very feeble one on the first shield; fifth and 
sixth, sixth and seventh, or fifth, sixth, and seventh upper labials 
entering the eye; three or four of the posterior lower labials 
deeply pitted. Scales in 41 to 45 rows. Ventrals 257-287; anal 
entire; subcaudals 38--53. Brown above, with more or less 
