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large shields in front ; eyes surrounded with scales, the two or three in the 
front angle of the eyes largest : labial shields flat ? front upper low, broad, 
hinder high. 
1. Heleionomus variegatus. Brown ? varied with irregular black-edged 
spots, often marked with a pale eye, or variously confluent: crown with 
a black-edged triangular spot and a streak on each side from the nostrils 
to the temple, enclosing the eyes and becoming wider behind . nape 
with an oblong, longitudinal, black-edged spot on each side. Body and 
head 13 feet, tail 18 inches. 
Inhabits ? Brit. Mus. 
b. Subcaudal plates entire, scales keeled. Old World. 
VII. Casarea. “ Body elongate, compressed, scales small, strongly 
keeled: head elongate, depressed; muzzle rather angular, covered with 
two pairs and an obliquely truncated rostral plate, a row of small loreal 
and a large anterior and 4 or 5 posterior ocular plates ; labial plates flat : 
tail rather slender, slightly prehensile.” 
1. Casarea Dussumieri. Boa Dussumieri, Schlegel, Phys. Serp. 396. — 
“ Brownish grey, beneath yellow : tail black-spotted. 
Inhabits Mauritius. Mus. Paris.” 
VIII. Candoia. “ Scales keeled : head very depressed, covered with 
small scales, largest near the conical elongate muzzle, which is angular on 
the sides: labial plates 11, rostral plates nearly square, chin-shields large 
triangular. 
“1. Candoia carinata. Boa carinata, Merrem, Ann. Wetter, ii. t. 9. 
“ Inhabits Amboina. Mus. Leyden. Is this allied to Eryx P ” 
c. Sub caudal plates 2-r owed. Old World. Pythonina. 
'I' Head ivith small scale-like plates. 
IX. Morelia. {Python part, Cuv.) Head-shields small, frontal plates 
distinct, 3 pairs; vertical plate small, single rostral shield with a pit 
on each side ; three front upper and the hinder lower labial plates pitted . 
scales smooth. Australia. 
* Vertical plate indistinct. 
1. Morelia punctata. Python punctatus, Merrem, Wagler, Amph. 
t. P. Peronii, Cuv. Australian Snake, Shaw. Coluber spilotes, Lacep. 
Inhabits New Holland. Brit. Mus. 
Vertical plate distinct. 
2. Morelia variegata. Whitish (in spirits), with numerous irregular 
black-edged olive cross bands, with irregular serrated and torn edges : 
head olive, varied with 2 or 3 white spots in the centre of the crown, and 
a broad short band behind each eye. 
Inhabits North Australia : Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. Brit. Mus. 
Var ? with a pale (sometimes interrupted) streak along each side. 
Inhabits Moreton Bay : called Carpet snake. Mus. Edinburg. 
X. Hortulia. Head-shields small; frontal plates distinct, (3) pairs; 
vertical plates indistinct or 2, very small, one behind the other : the 2 front 
upper labial shields pitted behind: the hinder lower labial shields not or ve- 
ry obscurely pitted. Africa. “ Pupil circular,” A. Smith. 
