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Total length 1480 mm. 



Head 90 „ 



Neck 130 „ 



Body 330 „ 



Fore-liinb 190 „ 



Hind-limb 250 „ 



Tail 930 ,, "— Boulenger. 



Habits.^ — " Although the Lace Lizard is generally arboreal, 

 climbing the forest trees with ease, and running well on the 

 ground, it can swim nearly as well as a crocodile." — McCoy, 

 Prodr. Z.V. 



" They are very voracious, and eat living or dead animals." The 

 particular food may be the smaller or even larger (if dead) 

 mammals, birds, other lizards, and especially, as the settlers find 

 to their cost, the eggs and young birds of the poultry yard. 



" They lay about a dozen large, tough, flexible, white eggs, 

 about two-and-a-half inches long, and one-and-a-half inches wide, 

 the young in which are nine or ten inches long." — McCoy, I.e. 



Distribution. — Victoria : In forest country whether in the 

 warm Murray region or in Gippsland and the south ; replaced in 

 the Wimmera by V. Gouldii. 



Localities. — Rutherglen, Beechworth, Walhalla, Moe, Cabbage 

 Tree Creek, Anders(m's Inlet (L. and F.). 



Range outside Victoria : New South Wales, Queensland 

 (Gayndah) (Brit. Mus.). 



Varanus varius, var. bellii. 



Hydrosaurus bellii. Gray, Cat., p. 13. 

 Varanus bellii, Dum. and Bibr., iii., p. 493, pi. xxxv. 

 " Black, with a few very broad yellowish cross bands, generally 

 black-dotted ; belly uniform yellowish." 



Varanus gouldii, Gray. 

 Monitor gouldii, Gray, Cat., p. 12. 



Hydrosaurus gouldii. Gray, Ann. N.H., i., 1838, p. 394, and 

 in Grey's Travels Austr., ii., p. 422. 



