86 BOIDR. 
the eye to the angle of the mouth; lower parts yellowish, with 
small brown spots on the sides, or nearly entirely brown. 
Total length 4780 millim.; tail 660, Reaches the length of 
9 metres (30 feet). 
Burma and Indo-China, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
a-b,c. Yg. (Se.71, 75,75; Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 
V. 815, 320, 306; C. 96, 
91, 84). 
d. oii (Sc. 75; V. 316; Singapore, Dr. Dennys [P.]. 
€ 
e. Yg. (Se.78; V. 319; C.97). Borneo. Sir J. Brooke {PJ 
J. Yg. (Se. 73; V.308; 0.93). Kejang River, Brooke Low, Esq. [P.]. 
Her. (Sc. 75; V. 304 Bastin Rs Repel 
5 . (Se. 75; V. ; atavia. . Kirkpatric 3 
# oS). Ph firs 
h. Pa ee 75; V. 319; Philippines. H. J. Veitch, Esq. [P.}. 
t-k. 2 (Se. 75; V. 312; Ternate. H.M.S. ‘ Challenger.’ 
C. 81) & yg. (Se. 77; 
V. 308; 0. 94). 
l. Yg. (Sc. 79; V. 315; N. Ceram. 
C. 83 
m. Ye. (Sc.77; V.827; Timor Laut. —__H. O. Forbes, Esq. (C.]. 
84), 
n. Ad., stffd. st 
5. Python seba. 
Seba, Thes. ii. pls. xix. fig. 1, xxvii. fig. 1, & xcix. fig. 2 (1735). 
Beery sebee, Gimel, S. N. i. p. 1118 (1788) ; Daud. Rept. vi. p. 238 
(1803). 
——- speciosus, Bonnat. Encycl. Méth., Ophiol. p. 17 (1790). 
Boa hieroglyphica, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p..266 (1801), and Denkschr. 
Ak. Miinch, vii. 1821, p. 119. 
? Python houttuynii, Daud. Rept. v. p. 254 (1803). 
Python hieroglyphicus, Merr. Tent. p. 90 (1820) ; Bote, Isis, 1827, 
516, 
p- 516. 
—- bivittatus, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat. p. 94 (1820). 
—— natalensis, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. (2) 1833, p. 64, and Il. 
Zool. 8. Afr., Rept. pl. ix. (1840) ; Dum. & Bibr, vi. p. 409 (1844) ; 
Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 105 (1882). 
bivittatus, part., Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 403 (1837). 
seb, Dum. & Bibr. t. c. p. 400, ey lxi.; Jan, Icon. Gén. p. 96, 
1. 8, pls. iii. & iv. (1864). 
Heleionomus variegatus, Gray, Zool. Mise. p. 43 (1842) *. 
Hortulia natalensis, Gray, J. c. p. 44, and Cat. p. 89 (1849). 
—— sebe, Gray, Cat. p. 90. 
Rostral as broad as deep, visible from above ; internasals about 
once and a half as long as broad, followed by a pair of large pra- 
frontals ; supraocular broken up into two or more shields; a pair of 
frontals, which may be broken up into small shields; a large pre- . 
ocular, with one or two smaller ones below it; three or four post- 
* The type specimen appears to have been lost. 
