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Olive-green or brownish above, marbled and dotted with 

 dark and light. Chin and throat with transverse dark bands 

 or marbled with blackish. Young specimens with yellowish 

 ocelli on back, limbs and base of tail; two chevron-shaped 

 black bands on the nape, directed posteriorly, the anterior 

 beginning at the eye; lower parts marbled with dark. Length 

 of head and body 350 mm.; tail 600 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Krawang). — Malacca; Singapore; Penang; 

 Siam; Burma; Bengal. 



Found on river-banks. 



6. Varanus salvator (Laur.). 



StelUo salvator^ Laurenti, Syn. Rept. 1768, p. 56. 



Varanus salvator^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. II 1885, p. 314 (s. syn.). 



Snout depressed at the end, about half as long as the head; 

 canthus rostralis rounded; nostril oval, at least two times nearer 



Fig. 63. Varanus salvator Laur. Young specimen X ^2' 



the tip of the snout than the orbit; teeth sharp, compressed. 

 Head-scales not very large, the temporal ones smallest; a 

 series of four to eight transversely enlarged scales on the 

 supraocular region. Nuchal scales small, oval, keeled. Body 

 covered with small, oval, keeled scales. Ventral scales keeled, 

 in 85 — 95 transverse series. Tail strongly compressed, about 

 one time and one fourth the length of head and body, covered 

 with keeled scales; a very low, doubly toothed crest above. 

 Limbs strong; digits moderate. 



Dark brown or blackish above, with yellow spots or ocelli 

 in transverse rows; snout lighter, with black transverse bands, 

 passing across the lips and chin; a black temporal band, begin- 

 ning at the eye and bordered by a yellow streak, which may 

 extend along the side of the neck. Lower parts yellow. Young 



