PYTHON 69 



Python reticulahis Gray, Zool. Misc. (1842) 44; Dumeril and Bibron, 

 Erp. Gen. 6 (1844) 426; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Kept. (1847) 55; Gray, 

 Cat. Vip. Snakes (1849). 87; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1861) 689; 

 GiJNTHER, Kept. Brit. India (1864) 330; Jan, Icon. Gen. (1864) 

 97, pi. 6; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 3 9 (1870) 205; Mae- 

 tens, Preus. Exped. O. Asien Zool. 1 (1876) 197; Theobald, Cat. 

 Kept. Brit. India (1876) 205; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. 

 (1886) 115; BouLENGER, Fauna Brit. India, Kept. (1890) 246; Cat. 

 Snakes Brit. Mus. 1 (1893) 85; Casto de Eleea, Cat. Tauna 

 Filipinas 1 (1895) 439; Griffin, Philip. .Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 

 255; Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 355. 



Descrijotion of species. — (From No. 426, Bureau of Science 

 collection; collected on Polillo Island, October, 1909, by C. Cano- 

 nizado). Rostral higher than wide, visible from above, with 2 

 deep, curved, elongate pits; 2 regular intemasals, longer than 

 wide, their mutual suture distinctly shorter than those formed 

 with nasals, their suture with rostral about equal to suture 

 between nasal and rostral; nasals roughly triangular, nostril 

 pierced posteriorly; a deep suture enters nostril from above, 

 which nearly divides the scale into two parts; 2 large regular 

 prefrontals, widest along their mutual suture, very much larger 

 than internasals, in contact with posterior part of nasal and 

 with a scale which is intercalated between preocular and pre- 

 frontal ; the latter scale lies diagonally, is rather rectangular in 

 shape, and is in contact with frontal, supraocular (on one side) , 

 preocular and 2 loreals (broken into two parts on right side) ; 

 frontal divided, smaller than prefrontals, lying between and 

 somewhat anterior to eyes ; supraocular large, about as wide as 

 long; 3 loreal scales, the anterior lying between nasal and third 

 labial, touching second and third labials; second loreal largest, 

 touching 3 labials ; third smallest, touching only fifth labial ; 2 

 preoculars, upper very' large, three or four times the size of lower, 

 and in contact with fifth and sixth labials ; lower touching sixth 

 and seventh labials; 13 upper labials, the seventh, largest, en- 

 tering eye ; first 4 with deep pits diagonally elongate ; 2 postocular 

 scales in parietal region, small, very irregular, larger than body 

 scales ; temporals slightly smaller ; mental small, triangular ; 23 

 lower labials, first 11 much elongated, second, third, and fourth 

 with small round pits; thirteenth to nineteenth inclusive pitted 

 with rounded pits; chin shields small, indistinguishable, mental 

 groove not especially distinct; scales on body small, the median 

 dorsal rows smallest, in 77 rows around widest part of body ; the 

 scales in the row bordering ventrals several times larger than 

 those on middle of back; ventrals 324, rather narrow; subcaudals 

 91, in 2 rows; anal single; on either side of anus a small ex- 



