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streak, usually confluent with an U-shaped dark band on the 

 neck; lips with dark vertical bars; limbs dark with yellow 

 spots. Lower parts yellowish, uniform or with dark transverse 

 bands. Head and neck of young specimens yellow with black 

 markings, back and tail black with yellow transverse bands 

 (when alive vermilion). Length of head and body 370 mm.; 

 total length reaches i M. or more. 



Type-specimen examined in the Leyden Museum. 



Habitat: Batu Islands!; Sumatra! (Stabat, Deli, Serdang!, 

 Taluk!, Indragiri); Banka!; Biliton; Java (Tengger Mts. 1200 M.); 

 Borneo! (Singkawang, Sarawak, Baram, Kuching, Pangkalan 

 ampat, Buntal, Mt. Dulit, 1000 feet, Rejang river, Akar river, 

 Bongon, Nanga Raun, Howong river, Tandjong). — Malacca; 

 Tenasserim. 



3. Varanus rudicoUis (Gray). 



Uaranus rudicollis^ Gray, Cat. 1845, P- ^°* 



Varanus rudicoUis^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. II 1885, p. 313. 



Snout long and pointed, more than half the length of the 

 head; canthus rostralis swollen; nostril oblique, more than two 

 times nearer the orbit than the tip of the snout; teeth sharp, 

 compressed. Head-scales not very large, subequal; a series of 

 three to six transversely enlarged scales on the supraocular 

 region. Nuchal scales very large, with strong keels, in ten to 

 twelve longitudinal series. Body covered with small, strongly 

 keeled scales. Ventral scales keeled, in 85 transverse series. 

 Tail compressed, covered with keeled scales; a very low, doubly 

 toothed crest above. Limbs strong; digits long. 



Blackish above; neck yellowish, with three black longitu- 

 dinal streaks; anterior part of back yellowish with two broad 

 black transverse bands; body posteriorly and flanks with yellow 

 ocelli; limbs with small yellow spots; tail with broad black 

 and narrow yellow transverse bands. Lower parts reticulated 

 with black. Length of head and body 440 mm.; total length 

 I M.— 1.20 M. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Benakat in Palembang, Indragiri) ; Borneo 

 (Matang, Kuching, Pangkalan Ampat, Sarawak, Baram river, 

 Rejang river, Mt. Dulit, 2000 feet, Bongon, Samarinda!). — 

 Malacca; Philippines. 



Found in jungle, on trees. 



