44 
Zoological Miscellany. 
1. HoftuUa Natalensis. Python Natalensis, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S, 
Africa, Kept. t. 9. Olive, back with irregular, unequal, hlack-edgecl, yel- 
low cross hands and spots : head with an arrow-shaped spot ; side of face 
and beneath yellow, with a dark streak from the back of the eye. 
Inhabits South Africa; Port Natal. Brit. Mus. 
ft Head shielded to behind the eyes. 
XI. Python. Python and Constrictor^ Wagler. Bostral shield with a 
pit on each side ; the front upper labial shields pitted on the hinder edge ; 
the hinder low^er labial plates more or less pitted ; vertical plates 2, scales 
small. 
a. The hinder lower labial shields ivith a cross groove^ and each marked ivith 
a pit. India. 
^ Tivo front upper labial p>lates pitied. 
1. Python molurus. Python bivittatus, Kuhl. P. Poda, Boie. P. Ja- 
vanicus, Kuhl. P. Tigris and P. Bora, Daud. Coluber molurus, Linn. C. 
Boceformis, Shaw. C. speciosus, Bonnat. C. Seba, Gmel. Boa hierogly- 
phica ; B. cinerea ; B. castanea ; B. albina ; B. orbiculata, Schn. Seba, 
i. t. 37, fig. 1. Russell, Ind. Serp. t. 22. 23. 
Inhabits India: Java. Common in our menageries, called Boa or Rock 
Snake. Brit. Mus. 
2. Python Jamesonii. Black, white- varied : back with a central series 
of transverse, broad, black-edged, white spots ; sides with a similar 
series of smaller spots ; the front ones longitudinal, the hinder roundish ; 
scales black, with a whitish , central streak : belly and sides white varied 
with blackish. 
Inhabits India? Mus. Univer. Edinb. 
Four front upper labial plates pitted. 
4. Python reticulatus. P. Schneideri, Merrem. Boa reticulata and B. 
rhombeata, Schn. B. phrygia, Shaw. B. Javanica, Kuhl. Russell, Ind. 
Serp. t. Head with a narrow, longitudinal, brown stripe. 
Inhabits India. Brit. Mus. 
b. Three hinder lower labial shields very obscurely pitted ; the four front 
upper labial shields with a pit behind. Africa. Constrictor. 
6. Python Bellii. Black ; middle of the back with a series of oblong 
longitudinal white spots, largest in front : sides with a series of very 
large white spots, with one or two oblong black spots on their upper part : 
head black, a streak over the nostril and the top of the eyes, another from 
the lower edge of the eye ; the lips, chin and beneath, white. 
Inhabits Western Africa. Brit. Mus. and Mus. Bell. 
XII. Liasis. Rostral, upper labial and front lower labial plates flat, 
hinder lower labial plates pitted ; vertical plate single. 
1 . Liasis Childreni. Purplish brown : back with a central series of 
oblong, transverse, dark spots ; sides with two series of roundish black 
spots, beneath white: upper lip with a dark streak to the angle of the mouth. 
Inhabits — — ™ ? Brit. Mus. 
2. Liasis amethystinus. Python amethystinus, Schn. Schlegel, Phys. 
Serp. t. f. 
Inhabits India. Mus. Leyden. 
