90 BOIDA. 
supraocular ; a large loreal; a large preocular, with several small 
scales below it ; one or two postoculars ; a series of suboculars may 
separate the eye from the labials; ten or eleven upper labials, the 
first two deeply pitted ; anterior and posterior lower labials feebly 
pitted. Scales in 53 to57 rows. Ventrals 160-175 ; anal entire ; 
subcaudals 28-32. Brown or brick-red above, with a dorsal series 
of round pale spots, which may be confluent into a stripe on the 
posterior part of the back; a black line along the middle of the 
head, followed by elongate whitish black-edged spots ; sides of body 
with greyish black-edged spots or undulous bands ; sides of head 
dark, with an oblique light streak from behind the eye to the 
angle of the mouth; lower parts whitish, uniform or spotted with 
brown. 
Total length 1370 millim. ; tail 120. 
Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 
a. Ad., stffd. Singapore. 
b. ae. (Sc. 57; V. 172; Malacca. Zoolog: Society. 
. 28). 
ce. Yg. (Sc. 53; V. 161; Telang, S.E. Hr. F. Grabowsky [C.], 
C. 28). . Borneo. (Dr. J. G. Fischer, 
5. CHONDROPYTHON. 
Chondropython, A. B. Meyer, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1874, p. 134; Sauvage. 
Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ii. 1878, p. 86; Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Zool. 
France, 1879, p. 146. 
No premaxillary teeth. Anterior maxillary and mandibular 
teeth very large, posterior small. Head distinct from neck, covered 
with small scales; nostril in a large, single or divided nasal, sepa- 
rated from its fellow by a pair of internasal shields, which are 
themselves separated by a series of scales ; rostral, anterior upper 
lubials, and middle lower labials with deep pits. Eye moderate, 
with vertical pupil. Body more or less compressed ; scales small, 
smooth. Tail moderate, prehensile; subcaudals in two rows. 
New Guinea. 
1. Chondropython viridis. 
Python viridis, Schleg. Dierentuin, Rept. p. 54 (1872). 
bain rthon azureus, A, B. Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 184; 
Peters § Doria, Ann, Mus. Genova, xiii, 1878, p. 403; Bouleng. 
Bull. Soe. Zool. France, 1879, p. 146. 
—— pulcher, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom, (7) ii. 1878, p. 37. 
Rostral as deep as broad, or a little deeper than broad ; head- 
scales granular, 17 to 20 across the forehead, from eye to eye; the 
scales round the eye not enlarged ; 12 to 15 upper labials, first and 
second, or first, second, and third pitted, sixth, seventh, and 
eighth, or eighth and ninth entering the eye; seventh to twelfth, 
eighth to thirteenth, or ninth to fourteenth lower labials pitted. 
Scales in 57 to 61 rows. Ventrals 227-240; anal entire; sub- 
caudals 75-109. Bright green above, uniform or with a series of 
