86 3JOIDJ5. 



the eye to the angle of the mouth ; lower parts yellowish, with 

 small brown spots on the sides, or nearly entirely brown. 



Total length 4780 millim. ; tail 660. Beaches the length of 

 9 metres (30 feet). 



Burma and Indo-China, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



a-b, V. Yg-. (Sc. 71, 75, 75 ; Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



V. 315,320,306; 0.96, 

 91, 84). 



d. Hgr. (Sc. 75 ; V. 316 ; Singapore. Dr. Dennys [P.]. 

 C. 94). 



e. Yg. (Sc. 73 ; V. 319 ; 0. 97). Borneo. Sir J. Brooke [P.]. 



/. Yg. (Sc.73;V.308;O.93). Kejang Eiver, Brooke Low, Esq. [P.]. 



Sarawak. 

 g. Hgr. (Sc. 75 ; V. 304 ; Batavia. K. Kirkpatrick, Esq. 



C. 92). [P.l. 



h. Yg. (Sc. 75 ; V. 319 ; Philippines. H. J. Veitch, Esq. [P.]. 



0. 78). 

 i-Jc. 2 (So. 75 ; V. 312 ; Ternate. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



C. 81) & yg. (So. 77 ; 



V. 303; C. 94). 

 /. Yg. (Sc. 79 ; V. 315 ; N. Ceram. 



C. 83). 

 m. Yg. (Sc. 77 ; V. 327 ; Timor Laut. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



C. 84). 

 n. Ad., stad. ? 



5. Python se'bse. 



Seba, Thes. ii. pis. xix. fe. 1, xxvii. fig. 1, & xcix. flg. 2 (1735). 

 Coluber seb£e, Omel S. N. i. p. 1118 (1788) ; Daud. Rept. vi. p. 238 



(1803). 



■ speciosus, Bonnat. Encycl. MHh., Ophiol. p. 17 (1790). 



Boa hieroglyphioa, Sclmeid, Hist. Amph. p. 266 (1801), and Denkschr. 



Ah. Miinch. vii. 1821, p. 119. 

 ? Python houttuvnii, Daud. Bept. v. p. 254 (1803). 

 Python hieroglypMcus, Men: Tent. p. 90 (1820) ; Boie, Isis, 1827, 



p. 510. 



~ bivittatus, KiM, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat. p. 94 (1820). 



natalensia. Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. (2) 1833, p. 64, and III. 



Zool. S. Afr., Bept. pi. ix. (1840) ; Bum. SfBibr. vi. p. 409 (1844) ; 



I'etei-s, Beise n. Mossamh. iii. p. 105 (1882). 



bivittatus, part., Sckleg. Phys. Serp. ii. p. 403 (1837). 



sebse, Dum. Sr Bibr. t. c. p. 400, pi. Ixi. ; Jan, Icon. Gen. p. 96, 



1.8, pis. iii. &iv. (1864). 

 Heleionomus variegatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 43 (1842) *. 

 Hortulia natalensis. Gray, I. c. p. 44, and Cat. p. 89 (1849). 

 sebse, Gray, Cat. p. 90. 



Bostral 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 ; supraocular broken up into two or more shields ; a pair of 

 frontals, which may be broken up into small shields ; a large proe- 

 ocular, with one or two smaller ones below it ; three or four post- 



* The type specimen appears to have been lost. 



