8 REPTILES. 



h. Adult, stuffed. N.W. Australia. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



c. Young, stuffed. Blackish, witli cross row of ocellated spots. 



Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



d. Very young, in spirits. Grey, with numerous narrow cross 

 bands, without tuft of spines. W. Australia. From Mr. Tur- 

 ner's collection. 



e. Young, in spirits. Olive blackish, with cross row of white rings, 



head closely white-speckled, limbs white-dotted. W. coast of 

 Australia. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



The Eyed Odatria. Odatria ocellata, Gray^ ZooL Erebus Sr 

 Terror, t. 



Black, with rather large yellow rings ; limbs and tail yellow- 

 spotted ; tail round, scales of the tail broad, oval, spinose ; scales 

 over the eyes small, granular ; ventral shields twice as long as 

 broad. 



a. Adult, in spirits. N.W. coast of Australia. 



The Timor Odatria. Odatria Timorensis. Monitor Timor- 

 ensis, Gray, Griffith, A. K. i. 36. Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 394. Dum. 

 et Bib. E. Gen. iii. 473. Tupinambis viridimaculatus, Daud. 



Black, yellow-dotted, dots forming rings and spots, head yel- 

 low and black dotted ; scales over the orbits small, granular, of 

 forehead larger ; ventral shields nearly as broad as long ; tail 

 slightly compressed above, sub triangular, base of tail unarmed. 



a. Half-grown, in spirits. Timor. From the Leyden Museum. 



B. Tail with a compressed keel above, formed of two rows of scales. 

 Nostrils large, oblong, oblique. Aquatic. 



3. Kegenia, 



Nostrils large, oblong, oblique, near the orbit; tail shortish, 

 thick, doubly keeled above, scales oblong, bluntly keeled ; toes 

 short, subequal ; teeth rounded ; scales large, convex, surrounded 

 with numerous granulations. Head short. 



The White-throated Regenia. Regenia albogularis. Tu- 

 pinambis albogularis, Daud. Rept. iii. 72, t. 32. Gray, Griffith, A. 

 K. ix. 28. Ann. N. H. i. 393. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 495. A. 

 Smith, Illust. S. A. Zool. t. 2. Monitor Gillii. A. Smith, Zool. 

 Journ. Uaranus ornatus, var. Merrem, Tent. 59. M. exanthe- 

 maticus, var. Capensis, Schlegel, Abbild. 71. 



Dark brown, with large white spots, pale beneath, with a dark 

 streak on each side of the back of the neck; nostrils near the orbit; 

 scales rather large, of the head convex. 

 a—c. Adult, stuffed. S. Africa. From the S. African Museum. 



