78 



BOID^. 



distinct larger darker spots disposed in five or six longitudinal 

 series ; a dark streak on each, side of the head, passing through the 

 eye ; lips yellowish, spotted with brown ; lower parts uniform 

 yellowish. 



Total length 1200 millim. ; tail 100. 



North Australia. 



a. Yg. (Sc. 41 ; V. 287 

 0. 48). 



b. Hgr. (Sc. 43; V. 280 

 0. 53). 



c. Yg. (Sc. 43 ; V. 257 

 0. 49). 



d. Yg. (Sc. 43 ; V. 267 

 0. 46). 



e. Yg. (Sc. 43 ; V. 270 

 0. 45). 



f-h. 2 (So. 43, 43, 45 

 V. 277, 270, 270 

 0. ?, 40, 38). 



i. Hgr. (Sc. 45 ; V. 279 

 C. 45). 



Jc. 2 sM. 



The specimens noticed 

 gilherti would belong to a 

 have 330 ventrals and 64 



N.W. Australia. 

 Port Essington. 

 Port Essington. 

 Port Darwin. 

 Gulf of Carpentaria. 



(Type.) 



Mr. Bring [0.]. 



Mr. Gilbert [C.]. 

 (Type of Nardoa gilhertii.) 

 R. G. S. Buckland, 



Esq. [0.]. 

 G. Krefft, Es^. [P.]. 



Rev. S. Macfarlane 

 [0.]. 



Sir J. Richardson 



[P.]. 

 Mrs. Montague Levey 

 [P.]. 



by Krefft (Austral. Sn. p. 35) as Nardoa 

 distinct species if the statement that they 

 subcaudals is correct. 



Islands of Torres 

 Straits. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



2. Liasis fuscus. 



Liasis olivaceus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 92 (1849). 



fuscus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 607. 



cornwallisius, Gunth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (5) iii. 1879, p. 85, 



fig- 

 Nardoa crassa, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. z. 1885, p. 66. 



Eostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals 

 longer than broad, not more than half as long as the prsefrontals ; 

 the latter shields extend to the frontal (unless separated from it by a 

 small azygous shield) and separate a second pair of much smaller 

 prsefrontals ; frontal about once and a half as long as broad, a little 

 shorter than its distance from the end of the snout ; one or two 

 pairs of parietals ; a single large loreal ; one prse- and two post- 

 oculars ; ten to twelve upper labials, first with a shallow pit, fifth 

 and sixth (or sixth and seventh) entering the eye ; three or four of 

 the posterior lower labials pitted. Scales in 47 or 49 rows. 

 Ventrals 275-291 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 65-72. Uniform 

 brown above, yellowish beneath. 



Total length 1330 millim. ; tail 190. 



North Australia and New Guinea. 



a. Hgr. (Sc. 47 ; V. 

 C. 68). 



291; Sir Charles Hardy Is 



J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



