150 



limbs and tail; sometimes dark brown transverse bands on 

 the body and several on the tail; a dark band from the 

 eye along the neck, passing above the ear and bordered above 

 and below by a yellow streak; another dark band on the 

 upper lip, passing through the ear and continued along the 

 side of the neck, where it may form spots; sides of neck with 

 irregular black spots. Lower parts yellowish, uniform or with 

 small dark spots. Young specimens have the dark and light 

 markings more strongly indicated. Length of head and body 

 550 mm.; tail 750 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mac Cluer Bay, Yule Island, Aroma, 

 Hula!, Gerekanumu). — Thursday Island; Australia. 



II. Varanus komodoensis Ouwens. 



Varanus komodoensis^ Ouwens, Bull. Jardin Botan. Buitenzorg (2) VI I9i2,p. I, 

 pi. 1—3. 



Snout broad, rounded, depressed, the distance from the tip 

 to the anterior corner of the orbit equals that between the 



Fig. 64. Varamis komodoensis Ouwens. (After Ouwens). A^. Nostril. 



latter point and the ear; canthus rostralis rounded; nostril 

 large, oval, very near the tip of the snout; teeth sharp, 

 compressed. Head-scales large, roundish, those on the snout 

 largest and elongate, the temporal ones smallest; supraocular 



