82 BOIDE. 
196-207 ventrals; 30-37 caudals; four 
upper labials pitted............. -.. 8. regius; p. 88. 
160-175 ventrals; 28-32 caudals; two 
upper labials pitted ....... Yee 9. curtus, p. 89. 
1. Python spilotes. 
White, Journ. Voy. N.S. W.p. 259, pl.—. fig. 1 (1740). 
Coluber spilotus, Lacép. Ann. Mus. iv. 1804, pp. 194, 209. 
Python punctatus, Merr. Tent. p. 90 (1820) ; Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 516. 
Echidna spilotes, Merr. 1. c. p. 150, 
Python peronii, Wagl. Icones, pl. i. (1828) ; Sehleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 
p. 421, pl. xv. figs. 11 & 12 (1837). 
Morelia punctata, Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 43 (1842). 
— variegata, Gray, 1. c.,. and Cat. p. 86 (1849); Krefft, Sn. 
Austral. p. 31, pl. ii. (1869); MeCoy, Prodr. Zool. Viect., Dec. ii. 
pl. Fat (1878); Douglas Ogilby, Rec. Austral. Mus. i. 1890, 
p- 96. 
—— argus *, Dum. & Bibr. vi. p. 885 (1844) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. p. 94, 
1, 7, pl. v. (1864); Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii, 1878, 
404. 
p- 404. 
—— spilotes, Gray, Cat. p. 85; Krefft, 1. c. p. 29, pl. i. 
Rostral as broad as deep, or a little deeper than broad, visible 
from above; internasals as broad as long, followed by a pair of 
somewhat larger shields which may be broken up; the rest of the 
upper surface of the head covered with scales or small irregular 
shields, among which, however, an enlarged frontal shield and two 
or three supraoculars are sometimes conspicuous ; eleven to thirteen 
upper labials, first two or three deeply pitted, sixth and seventh or 
seventh and eighth entering the eye; six or seven of the lower 
labials deeply pitted. Scales in 45 to 5l rows. Ventrals 251-304; 
anal entire or divided; subcaudals 63-92. Coloration very variable. 
Total length 2000 millim. (64 feet) ; tail 250. 
Australia and New Guinea. 
A. Black above, each scale with a yellowish dot, with or without 
seattered yellow, black-edged spots; upper labials black- 
edged ; lower parts yellow, the posterior ventrals and the sub- 
caudals spotted or edged with black. (Coluber spilotus, Lacép. ; 
Python punctatus, Merr.; P. peronti, Wagl.) 
a. i fe. 49; V. 274; New South Wales. Australian Museum. 
. 72). 
b. Her. ¢ (S¢. 49; V. 269; New South Wales, G. Krefft, Esq. [P-). 
C. 84). 
ce. Yg. (Se. 49; V. 261; Australia. Haslar Hospital. 
C. 85). 
d,e. Ad., stffd. Australia, 
f. Ad., skel. Australia, 
g. Hgr., skel. Australia. 
* Coluber argus, Linn., is founded upon a figure of Seba’s (Thes. ii. pl. ciii. 
fig. 1) which is probably not executed from a specimen, and certainly does not 
represent the Python here described. I regard C. argus as a mythical species. 
