78 BOIDA. 
distinct larger darker spots disposed in five or six longitudinal 
series ; a dark streak on each side of the head, passing through the 
eye; lips yellowish, spotted with brown; lower parts uniform 
yellowish. 
Total length 1200 millim. ; tail 100. 
North Australia. 
a. “yA (Se. 41; V. 287;, N.W. Australia. (Type.) 
48). 
b. we (Sc. 43; V. 280; Port Essington. Mr. Dring [C.}. 
53). 
ce. Yg. (Sc. 43; V. 257; —- Port Essington. Mr. Gilbert [C.]. 
C. 49). (Type c of Nardoa gilbertit.) — 
d. git (Se. 43; V. 267 ; Port Darwin. "Bey i; Buckland, 
é. 8 , (Se. 43; V. 270; Gulf of Carpentaria. G. Keats ea. [P.]. 
) 
F-h. Q (Se. 48, 43, 46; Islands of Torres Rev. S. Macfarlane 
V5- BU; 270, 270; Straits. C,}. 
C. ?, 40, ’38). 
é. Her. (Se. 45; V.279; Australia. Sir J. Richardson 
C. 45). fe. 
k. 2 skel. Australia. aE Pe ee 
Pil 
The specimens noticed by Krefft (Austral. Sn. p. 35) as Nardoa 
gilberti. would belong to a distinct species if the statement that they 
have 330 ventrals and 64 subcaudals is correct. 
2. Liasis fuscus. 
Liasis olivaceus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 92 (1849). 
fuscus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 607. 
—— cornwallisius, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. . H, (5) iii. 1879, p. 85, 
fig. 
Nardoa crassa, Macleay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S. W. x. 1885, p. 66. 
Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 
longer than broad, not more than half as long as the prefrontals ; 
the latter shields extend to the frontal (unless separated from it by a 
small azygous shield) and separate a second pair of much smaller 
prefrontals ; frontal about once and a half as long as broad, a little 
shorter than its distance from the end of the snout; one or two 
pairs of parietals; a single large loreal; one pre- and two post- 
oculars ; ten to twelve upper labials, first with a shallow pit, fifth 
and sixth (or sixth and seventh) entering the eye; three or four of 
the posterior lower labials pitted. Scales in 47 or 49 rows. 
Ventrals 275-291; anal entire; subcaudals 65-72. . Uniform 
brown above, yellowish beneath. 
Total length 1330 millim. ; tail 190. 
North Australia and New Guinea. 
a. Her. (Se. 47; V. 291; SirCharlesHardyIs J. B. Jukes, Esq. 
C. 68). [P.] 
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