4. PYTHON. 85 
3. Python timorensis. 
; —. fig. 3. 
dees Hubseskt, Notes Leyd. Mus. i. 1879, p. 16. 
Rostral just visible from above ; internasals considerably longer 
than broad, as long as the prefrontals behind them, which are 
separated from the frontal by a second pair of somewhat smaller 
prefrontals ; a large supraocular and a large frontal, followed by 
two pairs of parietals ; several small shields on the loreal region ; 
a larger preocular, with a smaller one below it; three post- 
oculars ; twelve upper labials, four anterior deeply pitted, sixth 
entering the eye; five lower labials deeply pitted. Scales in 60 
rows. Ventrals 288. Purplish brown above, with a network of 
patches of darker scales distributed among others of a lighter colour, 
resembling the pattern found in P. reticulatus; a dark line along 
the middle of the back of the head. 
Timor and Flores. 
4, Python reticulatus. 
Thes. i. pl. Ixxii. fig. 2 (1734), and ii. pls. Ixxix. & Ixxx. 
fig. 1 (1735). 
Boa reticulata, Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 264 (1801); Daud. Rept. 
v. : Pas (1803); Schneid. Denkschr. Ak. Miinch. vii. 1821, 
. 118. 
a rhombeata, Schneid, ll. ec. pp. 266,118. 
—— phrygia, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 348, pl. xevii. (1802). 
Coluber javanicus, Shaw, t. c. p. 441. 
Python schneideri, Merr. Tent. p. 89 (1820); Bote, Isis, 1827, 
p- 515; Guér. Icon. R. A., t. pl. xxi. fig. 1; Schleg. Phys. Serp. 
ii. p. 415, pl. xv. figs. 5-7 (1837). 
_— satiealetos, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 44 (1842); Dum. §& Bibr. vi. 
p- 426 (1844); Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 55 (1847) ; Gray, Cat. 
p. 87 (1849); Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 380 (1864); Jan, Icon. 
Gén. p. 97, |. 8, pl. vi. (1864); Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
xxxix. 1870, p. 205; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 205 (1876) ; 
Bouleng. Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 246 (1890). 
? Python jamesonii, Gray, Zool. Mise. p. 44. 
Rostral as broad as deep, visible from above; internasals about 
once and a half as long as broad, followed by a pair of large pre- 
frontals ; a large supraocular (rarely divided) and a large, usually 
undivided frontal; two pre-and three or four postoculars; twelve 
to fourteen upper labials, four anterior deeply pitted, seyenth or 
eighth entering the eye; two or three of the anterior and five or six 
‘ of the posterior lower labials pitted. Scales in 69-79 rows. Ven- 
4 trals 297-330 ; anal entire; subcaudals 78-102, Light yellowish 
| or brown above, with large circular, rhomboidal, or X-shaped 
: markings; young with three longitudinal series of light, black- 
2 edged spots; a black line along the middle of the head, from the 
f end of the snout to the nape, and another on each side from behind 
