314 VARANID^. 



11. Varanus salvadorii. 



Monitor salvadorii, Peters Sj- Dorla, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. 1878, 

 p. 337, pi. ii. tigs. 1 & 2. 



Teeth acute, compressed. Snoiit long, rounded and convex at 

 the end ; canthus rostralis rounded. N"ostril long, oblique, close to 

 the end of the snout. Tail rounded at the base, feebly compressed 

 and keeled above in the rest of its length. Head-scales small, 

 largest on the snout and between the orbit ; supraocular scales irre- 

 gular. Scales on upper surfaces smaU, elongate, keeled. Abdomiual 

 scales strongly keeled. Caudal scales keeled ; caudal keel with a 

 very low, doubly-toothed crest. Black above, dotted and spotted 

 with yellow, the spots arranged in cross bands on the back ; tail 

 with irregular yellow transverse bands ; lower surfaces yellow, 

 marbled and irregularly banded with black. 



centim. centim. 



Total length 165 Fore limb 19 



Head 11 Hind limb 23-5 



Neck and body 39 TaU 115 



Northern New Guinea. 



12. Varanus salvator. 



Hydrosaunis salvator, Gray, Cat. p. 13. 

 Stellio salvator, Laiir. Si/n. Bept. p. 56. 

 Tupinambis bivittatus, Kuhl, Be'ttr. z. Zool. p. 125. 

 Monitor elegaus, Gray, Zool. Journ. iii. 1828, p. 225. 

 Varanus vittatus, Lesson, in Belany. Voy. Ind. Or., Rept. p. 307.' 

 Hydrosaurus bivittatus, Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 164. 

 marmoratus, IViegm. Nova Acta Ac. Leop. -Carol, xvii. 1835, i. 



p. 196, pi. xiv. 

 Varanus bivittatus, Bum. ^ Bibr. iii. p. 487. 



salvator, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 29. 



Monitor bivittatus, Schley. Abhild. p. 76, pis. xxi. & xxii. figs. 1,2; 



Mi'dl. ^- Schley. Verh. Katurl. Gcsch. Nederl. ov.Bezitt., Rept. p. 38. 

 Hydrosaurus salvator, Gilnth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 67, pi. ix. tig. E. 



Teeth acute, compressed. Snout depressed at the tip, long, the 

 distance from that point to the anterior corner of the eye being 

 generally a little greater than the distance from the latter to the 

 anterior border of the ear ; canthus rostralis obtuse. Nostril oval, 

 at least twice as far from the orbit as from the tip of the snout. 

 Digits moderate. Tail strongly compressed, keeled above. Scales 

 of head moderate, subequal, larger than those on the temples ; supra- 

 ocular region with a series of four to eight lai'ge transversely dilated 

 scales. Scales on upper surfaces small, oval, keeled ; abdomiual 

 scales keeled, in eighty-five to ninety-five transverse rows. Caudal 

 scales keeled ; the caudal ridge with a very low, doubly-toothed crest. 

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

 generally lighter, with transverse black bars, most distinct on the 



