1847.] Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 903 



Boa amethystina, Schneider. 

 Boa constrictor, Var e, Latreille. 

 Boa phrygia ; Shaw. 

 Coluber javanicus, Shaw. 

 Boa constrictor, Var 5, Daudin. 

 Python amethystinus, Daudin. 

 Python des isles de la Sonde. 



r F. Boie. 

 Python schneiderii, Merrem, apud < Guerin. 



I Schlegel. 

 Coluber javanensis, Fleming. 



r Fitzinger. 

 Python javanicus,* Kuhl, apiuH Gray in Griffith, A. K 



L Eichwald. 

 Constrictor (P. schneideri, Khul) Wagler. 

 Python reticulatus, Gray, apud Dumeril and Bibron. 

 " Ular sawa" of the Malays. 



Ground-colour above light yellowish-brown, chestnut or olive-green, 

 assuming a greyish hue on the sides, all the colours strongly iri- 

 descent, particularly reflecting metallic blue, or green. The head 

 is divided from the muzzle to the nape of the neck by a black line, 

 continued along the back to the point of the tail and describing a 

 series of large lozenges, sometimes linked to each other by a small black 

 ring, sometimes broken up into large irregular patches. A black ob- 

 lique line proceeds from behind the eye towards the angle of the mouth, 

 continuing on the sides as a series of more or less regular lozenges, 

 which are joined to the lateral angles of those of the back by a large 

 black triangular spot with a white arched mark in the centre. The 

 scales nearest the black margins of the lozenges are of a lighter colour 

 than the rest, sometimes whitish. Between and within the lateral 

 lozenges appear numerous black spots, or interrupted lines. The lips 

 (the lower in some present a black line), and abdominal scuta are 

 gamboge, or pale yellow, as well as the lowest two or three series of 

 scales, but the latter with irregular black spots. The caudal scutella, 

 and scuta, when present, are yellow, marbled with black. The iris is 

 silvery flesh-coloured or yellowish-brown, sometimes with a black bar ; 

 the pupil vertically contracted by the light. The tongue is black 

 above, bluish white beneath. In the young the colours are brighter 

 than in the adult. 



Scuta 297 to 330 ; Scutella 82 to 102. 



r Vi/tho javanicus, figured and described in Abel's Narrative, &c, is Python molurus, 



(Linne.) 



