1. VABANU3. 313 



eighty-five transverse rows. Caudal scales keeled, the lateral some- 

 times intermixed with larger ones ; the caudal keel with a very low, 

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

 from eye to ear, generally confluent with a U-shaped dark marking on 

 the neck ; back with very broad dark transverse bars, broader than 

 the interspaces between them ; limbs dark brown, spotted with yellow; 

 more or h-ss distinct vertical dark bars oil the lips ; belly yellowish, 

 uniform or with transverse dark bands. 



centim. centim. 



Total length 81 Fore limb 12 



Head 6 Hind limb 15 



Neck 8 Tail (injured) 44 



Body 23 



Borneo ; Sumatra ; Tenasserim. 



a. Ad. Borneo. 



b. Ad. Borneo. II. Low, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. Sumatra. Ilr. C. Bock [C.]. 



d. Ilgr. ? Dr. Bleaker. 



10. Varanus rudicollis. 



Uaranus rudicolhs, Gray, Cat. p. 10. 



Teeth acute, compressed. Snout pointed, very long, considerably 

 longer than the distance from the anterior corner of the eye and the 

 ear ; canthus rostralis swollen. Nostril an oblique slit, its distance 

 from the tip of the snout twice and a half that from the orbit. 

 Digits elongate. Tail compressed, keeled above. Scales of head 

 moderate, subequal ; supraocular scales with a posterior central 

 series of three to six transversely dilated scales. Scales on upper 

 surface of neck extremelj- large and prominent, strongly keeled, 

 forming ten to twelve longitiadinal series ; they become gradually 

 smaller as they pass into the dorsal region ; latter and limbs with 

 small, strongly-keeled scales. Abdominal scales keeled, in eighty- 

 five transverse series. Caudal scales keeled ; the caudal keel with 

 a very low, doubly-toothed crest. Blackish above, neck and an- 

 terior part of body yellowish, the former with three black longi- 

 tudinal streaks, tbe latter with two broad transverse black bands ; 

 hinder part of back and flanks with yellowish ocelli ; limbs with 

 small yellowish spots ; lower surfaces obscured by black reticulations. 



centim. ceutim. 



Total length 84 Tore limb 17 



Head 9 Hind limb 20 



Neck 11 Tail (injured) 40 



Body 24 



Philippines ; Borneo. 



a. Ad., stufli'd. Pliilippines. II. Cumiug, Esq. [C.]. (Type.) 



b. Ad., stuffed. Sarawak. 



