'78 VARANIDiE. 



tail black with yellow transverse bands ; these yellow parts, 

 Mr. llobinson informs me, are vermilion in life. 



Froiu snout to vent 370 millim. 



Known from Tenasserim, Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay 

 Peninsula, whence only young specimens have as yet been 

 obtained. 



78. Varanus rudicoUis. 



Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 10 (1845) ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. ii, p. 3L3 (1885) ; 

 id. op. cit. iii, p. 605 (1887); Laidlaw, P.Z.S. 1901, i, p. 310. 



Teeth acute, compressed. Snout pointed, more than half length 

 of head. Nostril oblique, more than twice as distant from end of 

 snout as from orbit. Supraocular region with a posterior central 

 series of 3 to 6 transversely dilated scales. Scales on upper surface 

 of neck extremely large and prominent, strongly keeled, forming 

 10 to 12 longitudinal series ; dorsal scales small, strongly keeled. 

 Ventral scales keeled. Tail compressed, with a low, doubly- 

 toothed crest. Blackish above, neck and anterior part of body 

 yellowish, the former with three black longitudinal streaks, the 

 latter with two broad transverse black bands ; hinder part of back 

 and flanks with yellowish ocelli; limbs with small yellowish spots; 

 lower parts with black reticulations. 



Prom snout to vent 440 millim. 



Malay Peninsula, Trang, Perak (forests at foot of Grunong Inas), 

 Selangor and Malacca ; Borneo, Philippines. Pound in heavy 

 jungle. 



79. Varanus salvator. 



Stellio salvator, 'Lam: Syii. Eept. p. -56 (1768). 



Varanus saloator, Cantor, Jouru. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, p. 635 

 (1847); Bouleno-. Cat. Liz. ii, p. 314(1885) ; id. Faun. Brit. Ind., 

 Kept. p. 160 (1890) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 873 ; Ridley, 

 Jouru. Straits Br. Asiat. Soc, No. 32, p. 190 (1899) ; Bouleng-. 

 Fasc. Malay., Zool. i, p. 187 (1903). 



Hydrosaurus salvator, Giinth. Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 67, pi. ix, fig. E 

 (1864). 



Teeth acute, compressed. Snout depressed at the end, about 

 half length of head. Nostril oval, at least twice as far from orbit 

 as from end of snout. Supraocular region with a series of 4 to 8 

 transversely enlarged scales. Scales on upper surfaces small, oval, 

 keeled. Ventral scales keeled. Tail strongly compressed, keeled 

 above. Dark brown or blackish above, with yellow spots or ocelli ; 

 snout usually lighter, with transverse black bars, most distinct on 

 the lips, and continued across the chin; a black temporal band, 

 commencing from the eye and bordered by a yellow band which 

 • sometimes extends along the side of the neck ; lower parts yellow. 

 The markings most accentuated in the young. 

 From snout to vent 1040 millim. ; tail 1320. 



