LIZARDS. 



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o. Half-grown, in spirits. New Holland. 



6, c. Adult, stuffed. New Holland. Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 



d, €. Adult, stuffed. New Holland. 



Bell's Lace Lizard. Hydrosaurus Bellii. Uaranus Bellii, 

 Dum. et Bib. E. Gen, iii. 493, L So,/. 1. Gray, in Grey, Trav. 

 Aiistr. ii. 422. 



Pale, body and tail with broad black cross bands ; scales of the 

 orbit dilated, equal. 



Inhab. ? Mus. Bell. 



** Scales on the orbit equal, small. Neck spotted like the hack. 



The Gigantic Lace Lizard. Hydrosaurus giganteus, Gray, 



Zool. Erebus and Terror, t. — . 



Brown, back and tail with cross bands of large black-edged 



white spots ; neck and under side of body pale, with large black 



round reticulations; legs white-spotted; toes rather short, strong ; 



shields of the head subequal, convex, over the orbits very small, 



granular. 



«. Adult, length 78 inches. N. coast of New Holland. Present- 

 ed by Capt. Stokes, R.N. 



■**"^' Scales over the orbits ivith a larger central longitudinal series. 



The Two-streaked Lace Lizard. Hydrosaurus Salvator. 

 H. bivittatus, Wagler, Syn. 104. Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 394. Stel- 

 lio Salvator, Laur. Syn. 5Q. Shaw, Zool. iii. 214, t. 66. Tupi- 

 nambis bivittatus, Kuhl. Beitr. 125. Boie, Iris, xviii. 205. Dum. 

 et Bib. E. G. iii. 486. Uaranus vittatus, Lesson, Voy. Belang. 

 307. Monitor elegans, Gray, Zool. Jour. Seba, ii. t. 30, /. 2. 

 cop. Shaio, Zool. t. 66. Lacerta Monitor ? Herm. Obs. 254. 

 M. marmoratus, Weigmann, N. Act. xviii. t. 14 ? U. Cumingii, 

 Martin, Proc. Z. Soc. 1838, 69? Seba, ii. t. 30, /. 2. t. 86, f. 2. 

 Tupinambis exilis, Reimu. 



a. Half-grown, in spirits. China. Presented by J, Lindsay, Esq. 

 h, c. Half-grown, stuffed. India ? 



d. Half-grown, stuffed. S. Africa. From Dr. Krauss' collection. 



e. Half- grown, in spirits. Celebes. From the Ley den Museum. 



The Green Lace Lizard. Hydrosaurus prasinus. Monitor 

 prasinus, Midler, Verhan. Rept. t. 5. Schley. Abbild, 78, t. 22, f. 5. 



Green, with narrow dark cross-bands, generally placed in pairs, 

 those of the neck lunate, the rest transverse, with a brown streak 

 on the cheek behind the nostril ; head-shields flat, rather large, 

 those over the orbits larger in a series. 



Inhab. West coast of New Guinea. Mus. Leydeo. 



? Monitor inornatus, Schlegel, Abbild. 72. Inhab. " N. Hol- 

 land,'' Schlegel. 



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