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4, PYTHON. 89 
Python bellii, Gray, Nat. Miscell. p. 44 (1842). 
—— regius, Dum. § Bibr. vi. p. 4 2 (1844); Jan, Icon. Gén. p. 97, 
1. BS he y. (1864); F. Mill. Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 885, 
p. 67) 
Hevtulia regia, Gray, Cat. p. 90 (1849). 
Rostral as broad as deep, visible from above; internasals nearly 
twice as long as broad, followed by a pair of large prefrontals; a 
large supraocular, separated from its fellow by a pair of frontals 
or by several small shields; two or three prw- and three or four 
postoculars, and a series of suboculars usually separating the eye 
from the labials ; ten or eleven upper labials, four anterior deeply 
pitted, fifth or sixth sometimes entering the eyes; two to four of 
the posterior lower labials feebly pitted. Scales in 53 to 63 rows. 
Ventrals 196-207; anal entire or divided; subcaudals 30-37. 
Upper surface of head dark brown, with a pale, black-edged streak 
on each side, beginning above the nostril and passing through the 
eye; a dark brown, black-edged band occupies the back, sending 
down triangular or Y-shaped processes on the sides, which are pale 
brown ; this dorsal band encloses a light streak on the neck, another 
on the tail, and a series of from ten to eighteen light round or oval 
spots ; belly yellowish, with or without small brown spots on the 
sides. 
Total length 1240 millim. ; tail 100. 
Senegambia and Sierra Leone. 
a, b. Ad, (Se. 55, 55; Gambia. Lord Derby [P.}. 
eit eh ged C, 31, 32). 
 % ; V. 200; Gambia. Mr. Rendal yar 
Rie (Type of ) 
arg ( 63; V. 207; Gambia. Mr. Rerdal [C.]. 
e. Ad. (Se. 55; V. 197; Gambia. Sir A. Moloney [P.}. 
©. 30). 
-h. Yg. (Sc. 59, 59, 55; Freetown, Sierra R. Dinze {Os 
f* 1, 196, 202; ©. 37, Leone. Lon ba 
37, 2). 
i. Aa. (Ge. 53; V. 200; W. Africa. Sir J. McGrigor[P. }. 
k, Hgr., stffd. W. Africa. 
9. Python curtus. 
Python curtus, Schleg. racer Rept. p. 54, fig. (1872) ; Hubrecht, 
Notes d, sao lag i. 1879, p. 244; Blanf. ” Pree. Zool. Soc. Iss], 
p. 222; g. Proc. Zo . Soc. 1889, p. 482, pl. xly. 
‘ad Reson Steind, Sitzb. a Wien, \xxxii. 1881, p- 267; 
Fischer, Arch, f. Nat. 1885, =i v. fig. 5. 
Aspidoboa curta, Sauvage, Bull. ‘Nee hilom. F) viii, 1884, p. 143, 
Rostral broader than deep, visible from above; internasals as 
broad as long, separated from the frontal and the supraoculars by 
two pairs of large prefrontals; frontal longitudinally divided, 
followed by several pairs of transverse parietal shields; a large 
