DESCRIPTION. 



Teeth acute, compressée!. Snout short, depressed at the tip. 

 Nostril oval, three times as far from the orbit as from the tip 

 of the snout. Digits strong. Tail compressed, keeled above. 

 The caudal keel with a low five-sixtoothed crest. Head- and 

 neck-scales large and veiy stj'ongly keeled 3). Abdominal scales 

 keeled, in 97 transverse rows. Caudal scales also keeled and in 

 218 transverse rows. Scales on upper surface smaller than the 

 neckscales and strongly keeled. Dark brown above. Tongue 

 very long and yellov\^ Tympan u m large. 



[f the animal is indeed a species not yet described, I pro- 

 pose to call it: Varanus Komodoensis. 



3) Plate III. 



