4. PYTHON. 87 
oculars ; a series of suboculars separating the eye from the labials ; 
thirteen to fifteen upper labials, two anterior deeply pitted ; four or 
tive of the posterior lower labials feebly pitted. Scales in 81 to 93 
rows. Ventrals 269-286; anal entire or divided; subcaudals 
63-77. Pale brown above, ‘with dark brown, black-edged, more or 
less sinuous cross bars, which are usually connected by a continuous 
or interrupted sinuous dark stripe running along each side of the 
back; sides with large spots, and finely dotted with black ; a large 
triangular dark brown blotch occupies the top of the head, bordered 
on each side by a light stripe beginning at the end of the snout, 
above the nostril, and passing above the eye; a dark stripe on each 
side of the head and a dark subtriangular blotch below the eye; 
upper surface of tail with a light stripe between two black ones ; 
belly spotted and dotted with dark brown. 
Total length 4100 millim. ; tail 460. Said to grow to 7 lia 
(23 feet). 
Tropical and South Africa. 
a, ar (Sc. 91; V.273; Gambia. Lord Derby [P.]. 
. 64). 
b, Ye. (Se. 93; V.276; Gold Coast. Mr. Rich [C.]. 
C. 76). 
c. Als (Se. 85; V.270;  Ashantee. Leyden Mus. 
d. OE Ge. 85; V.275;  Fantee. 
e. Ad., Mead only. South of Chartoum. Consul Petherick [O.}. 
f. Ad., stffd. Port Natal. Sir A. Smith [F. 
g. Hgr. (Sc. 89; V. 269; ——?P J. Melrose, Esq. [ P.]. 
C. 72). 
h. Far. (Se. 91; V.280; ——? Zoolog. Society. 
C. 66). 
¢. Ad., skel. W. Africa. Zoolog. Socie 
k. Ad, skull. 8. Africa. Sir rn Smith P.). 
l. Hgr., skull. Senegal. ‘ 
6. Python molurus. 
Russell, Ind. Serp. i. pls. xxii.—xxiv. i xxxix. (1796), 
Coluber molurus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 387 (1766). 
Boa ordinata, Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 260 (1801), and Denkschr. 
Ak. Miinch. vii. 1821, p. 122. 
—— cinerea, Schneid. Ul. ce. pp. 270, 121. 
—— castanea, Schneid. ll. ce. pp. 2 272, 121, 
—— albicans, Schneid. U. ce. pp. 274, 121. 
—— orbiculata, Schneid., ll, cc. pp. 276, 123, 
Python bora, Daud. Rept. v. p. 236 (1803). 
— tigris, Daud. t. ¢. p. a3 Ixiy. 
—— ordinatus, Daud. t. ¢. p. 
—— bivittatus, part., Schi-g. Phys. Serp. iii. p. 403, pl. xv. figs. 1-4 
1837 
Be = Gray, Zool. Mise. p. 44 (1842); Dum. § Bibr. vi. 
p. 417 (1844); Gray, h, Cotayes 88 Vi849); Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. 
p. 331 (1864) ; Jan, Icon. Gén. p. 96, 1. &, pl. ii. (1864); Stoliczka, 
