V ARAN us. 77 



Prom snout to vent 410 millim. ; tail 510. 



Nepal, Bengal, Burma, and in the Malay Peninsula at Trang 

 and Penan g. 

 Terrestrial. 



'76. Varanus nebulosus. 



Monitor nelwlosus, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix, S_yn. p. 27 (18.31). 

 Varanus nebulosus. Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beniral, xvi, p. 6.33- 



(1847); Giinth.' Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 66, pi. i.^,"tig-. D (1864); 



Boulenp'. Cat. Liz. ii, p, 311 (1885); id. Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept. 



p. 165 (1890) ; id. Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, p. 157 (1903). 



Teeth acute, compressed. Snout pointed, convex, about half 

 length of head. Nostril elongate, oblique, nearly twice as distant 

 from end of snout as from orbit. 4 or 5 transversely enlarged 

 supraocular scales. Scales on upper surfaces small, oval, obtusely 

 keeled, those on anterior part of neck larger, subcircular, not 

 keeled. Ventral scales smooth. Tail compressed, keeled above.. 

 Greenish or brownish olive above, irregularly marbled and dotted 

 with darker and lighter ; chin and throat with transverse blackish 

 bands, or marbled with blackish. Toung with numerous yellowish 

 ocelli above, and the lower parts marbled with blackish ; nape 

 with two posteriorly-directed, chevron-shaped blackish bands, the 

 anterior proceeding from the eyes. 



From snout to vent 350 millim. ; tail GOO. 



Bengal, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula (Jalor, Perak, Malacca, 

 Singapore, Penai^g). 



Found on river-banks. 



77. Varanus dumerilii. 



Monitor dumerilii (S. Midi.) Schleg. Abbikl. p. 78 (1844). 

 Varanus macrolejiis, Blanf. Journ, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1, p. 239, 



pi. xvi (1881). 

 Varanus dumerilii, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. ii, p. 312 (1885) ; id. Faun. 



Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 165 (1890). 



Teeth acute, compressed. Snout depressed at the end, a little 

 more than half length of head to ear. Nostril oval, oblique, 

 nearly twice as distant from end of snout as from orbit. Middle 

 supraocular scales slightly enlarged transversely. Scales on upi)er 

 surface of neck very large, about as long as broad, ilat, the hinder- 

 most slightly keeled ; dorsal scales large, oval, keeled. Ventral 

 scales slightly keeled. Tail compressed, with a very low, doubly- 

 toothed crest. Light brown above ; a dark temporal streak, from 

 eye to ear, usually confluent with a U-shaped dark marking on the 

 neck; back with very broad dark tranverse bars, broader than 

 the interspaces between them ; limbs dark brown, spotted with 

 yellow; more or less distinct vertical dark bars on the lips ; belly 

 yellowish, uniform or with transverse dark bands. Young with 

 the head and neck yellow with black maiddngs, and the body and 



