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3. Python timorensis. 



Liasia amethystinus, Yar. timoriensis, Peters, Mm. Berl. Ac. 1876, 



p. 533, pi. —. fig. 3. 

 petersii, Subrecht, Notes Le>ijd. Mus. i. 1879, p. 16. 



Eosfcral just visible from above ; internasals considerably longer 

 than broad, as long as the pr89fronta]s behind them, vrhich are 

 separated from the frontal by a second pair of somewhat smaller 

 praefrontals ; a large supraocular and a large frontal, followed by 

 two pairs of parietals ; several small shields on the loreal region ; 

 a larger prseocular, with a smaller one below it; three post- 

 oculai-s ; twelve upper labials, four anterior deeply pitted, sixth 

 entering the eye; five lower labials deeply pitted. Scales in 60 

 rows. Ventrals 288. Purplish brown above, with a network of 

 patches of darker scales distributed among others of a Ughter colour, 

 resembling the pattern found in P. reticulatus ; a dark Hue along 

 the middle of the back of the head. 



Timor and Flores. 



4. Python reticulatus. 



Seba, Thes. i. pi. Ixxii. fig. 2 (1734), and ii. pis. Izxix. & Ixxx. 



tig. 1(1735). 

 Boa reticulata, Schneid. Bist. Amph. ii. p. 264 (1801) ; Baud. Hept. 



V. p. 116 (1803); Schneid. Benkschr. Ah. Munch. Mil. 1821, 



p. 118. 



rhombeata, Schneid. II. cc. pp. 266, 118. 



phrygia, Shato, Zool. iii. p. 348, pl. xovii. (1802). 



Coluber javanicus, Shaw, t. c. p. 441. 



Python schneideri, ' Merr. Tent. p. 89 (1820) ; Boie, Isis, 1827, 



p. 515 ; Gu4r. Icon. R. A., Mept. pl. xxi. fig. 1 ; Schleg. Phys. Serp. 



ii. p. 415, pl. XV. figs. 5-7 (1837). 

 reticulatus, Oray, Zool. Misc. p. 44 (1842) ; Bu7n. S/- Bibr. vi. 



p. 426 (1844); Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. S5 (1847) ; Gray, Cat. 



p. 87 (1849) ; Gunth. Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 330 (1864) ; Jan, Icon. 



G&n. p. 97, 1. 8, pl. vi. (1864) ; Stoliczlca, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



xxxix. 1870, p. 206 ; Theob. Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 205 (1876) ; 



Boulenff. Faun. Ind., Bept. p. 246 (1890). 

 ? Python jamesonii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 44. 



Eostral as broad as deep, visible from above ; internasals about 

 once and a half as long as broad, followed by a pair of large prse- 

 frontals ; a large supraocular (rarely divided) and a large, usually 

 undivided frontal; two prse- and three or four postoculars; twelve 

 to fourteen upper labials, four anterior deeply pitted, seventh or 

 eighth enteririg the eye ; two or three of the anterior and five or six 

 of the posterior lower labials pitted. Scales in 69-79 rows. Ven- 

 trals 297-330 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 78-102. Light yellowish 

 or brown above, with large circular, rhomboidal, or X-shaped 

 markings; young with three longitudinal series of light, black- 

 edged spots ; a black line along the middle of the head, from the 

 end of the snout to the nape, and another on each side from behind 



