6 L. Gr. ANDERSSON, CATAL. OF LINNEAN TYPE SPECIMENS OF REPTILIA. 



by Quensel: Lacerta monitor, which evidently is the one 

 nientioned by him from Mus. Drottningholmense. 



Quensel, bowever, bas in bis catalogue, wbere be gives 

 tbe number of specimens, belonging to tbe different species, 

 beside tbe lizard, mentioned from Drottningholm, for tbis 

 species written a 3, — wbicb be låter on bas altered to a 

 4 — but tbis figure is plaeed somewbat above in its column 

 and not as usual on a level witb tbe sbort note be gives for 

 tbe species, for wbicb reason Quensel possibly meant it not 

 to belong to tbis lizard. Swartz states in bis catalogue one 

 specimen onlj in tbe collections and tbis one from Museum 

 Drottningholmense, and as it also is ratber doubtful tbat of 

 four specimens all could be löst, I consider it very possible 

 tbat at tbe time of Quensel tbere never was more tban tbe 

 specimen from Drottningholm. Thus the specimen, now kept 

 in tbe museum and labeled by Quensel, is, according to my 

 opinion, Linnseus's type-specimen for Lacerta tigrina. 



It is a good thougb somewbat discoloured specimen of 

 Varanns hengalensis (Daud.) (Boulenger's cat. Liz. II, p. 310, 

 1885). Linn8eus's description of Lacerta tigrina agrees com- 

 pletely witb the specimen, and it is evident tbat Linnseus 

 by tbis one meant a Fara«M5-species. For instance be says: 

 »Caput sqiiamis rotundatis cequalibus ; cauda fasciis ferrugineis 

 fuscisque anceps, margine inferiore crassiore rotundato, supe- 

 riore ohtusissimo serie duplice squamartim; Juiic series nulla 

 punctorum in femorihus ut in Ameiva» etc. He states tbat 

 tbe lacerta in question lives in India, which also corresponds 

 to Varanus hengalensis. Thus, according to the rules for the 

 employment of tbe Linnean names, the author's Varanus 

 hengalensis ought to be named Varanus monitor (L.). ^ 



Total length 430 mm. Length of the body to the vent 140 mm. 



Lacerta superciliosa. 



Linnseus in Mits. Ad. Frid. /, p. 4L Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 200. 

 Syn. in Boulenger's Cat. Liz. II, p. 111, Opliryoessa super- 

 ciliosa (L.) FiTZ. 



According to QuenseFs catalogue tbere were then three 

 specimens of tbis lizard all from Museum Drottningholmense. 



' The Linnean name tigrina is older, but as we reckon the initiation of 

 the binomenclature from the publication of the lOtli edition of Systema Natur», 

 the name monitor is preferable. 



