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keeled on the hinder part of the back. Ventral scales keeled, 

 in 77' — 90 transverse series. Tail round, compressed at the 

 end, without a keel, one time and three fourths the length of 

 head and body, covered with keeled scales. Limbs strong; 

 digits long. 



Bright green above, with a black network or black transverse 

 bands. Lower parts uniformly yellowish. Length of head and 

 body 248 mm. ; tail 440 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Jobi, Lobo, Dorei, Mansinam, 

 Humboldt Bay!, Lake Sentani ! Wendesi!, Mimika river, Paup, 

 Stephansort, Bogadjim, Bongu, Astrolabe Bay!, Aroma, Moroka 

 2300 feet, Gerekanumu, Dinawa, St. Joseph river). — Islands 

 of Torres Straits. 



13. Varanus kordensis (Meyer). 



Monitor kordensis^ Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 131. 



Monitor beccarii^ Doria, Ann. Mus. Geneva VI 1874, p. 331, pi. XI, fig. a. 

 Varanus kordensis^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. II 1885, p. 322. 



Snout depressed, as long as the distance between the anterior 

 border of the orbit and the ear; canthus rostralis rounded; 

 nostril round, slightly nearer the tip of the snout than the 

 orbit; teeth sharp, compressed. Head-scales large, flat, largest 

 between the orbits ; a series of three to five transversely 

 enlarged supraocular scales. Nuchal scales small, long and 

 strongly keeled. Body covered with elongate, keeled scales. 

 Ventral scales keeled, in about 66 transverse series. Tail round, 

 compressed at the end, without a keel, covered with keeled 

 scales, about two times and one third the length of head and 

 body. Limbs strong; digits long. 



Olive above with a black network or black above, with or 

 without olive-green transverse bands, formed by green ocelli; 

 head olive. Lower parts olive. Length of head and body 

 230 mm.; tail 520 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Fak Fak, S. of Huon Gulf, Kordo 

 on Mysore); Aru Islands!. — St. Aignan ; Ferguson and 

 Trobriand Islands. 



14. Varanus timorensis (Gray). 



Monitor timorensis^ Gray, Griff. An. Kingd. IX Syn. 1831, p. 26. 

 Varanus timorensis^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. II 1885, p. 323. 



Snout depressed at the tip, not quite so long as the distance 



