1. VARANtrS. 



319 



i,k. Yg., 

 l-m. Yg. 

 n. Yg. 

 o. Yg. 



r-s. Yg-. 

 t. 



M, 



X. 



y 



stuffed. 



a-y, 

 8. e. 



Ad., stuffed. 



Yg. 



Ad., stuffed. 

 ■ Yg. 



Ilgr. 



Ad. 



Hgr., stuffed. 



Yg. 



Ad., skeletous. 



f. Anatomical preparation. 



Cape of (xood Hope. 



Coudo, Cuanza. 



Feruaudo Po. 



Niger. 



Asliautee. 



Sierra Leone. 



Senegal. 



Senegal. 



W. Africa. 



W. Africa. 



W. Africa. 



p 



p 



p 



P 



\cf. Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. GO.) 



Dr. Welwitsch [P.]. 



Dr. W. Stauger [P.]. 

 T.E.BowditciijEsq.fP.]. 



Mr. Fraser [C]. 



W. Raddon, Esq. [P.]. 



Lord Lilford [P.]. 

 Col. Baikie [C.]. 



19. Varanus varius. 



Hydrosaurus varius, Grcuj^ Cat. p. 12. 

 Lacerta varia, hluno, in Whites Voy. N. S. Wales, p. 246, pi. iii. fig, 2, 



and Zool. Misccll. iii. pi. Ixxxiii. 

 Tupinanibis variegatus. Baud. Rept. iii, p. 76. 

 Yarauus varius, Merr. Tent. p. 58 ; Diun. ^- Bibr. iii. p. 491, 

 Hydrosaurus variegatus, Wayl. Si/st. Amp/i. p. 164. 

 Monitor varius, Grat/, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 25 ; Schley. Abhilcl. 



p. 78. 

 Yaranus (Hydrosaurus) mustelinus, De Borre, Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) 



xxix. 1870, p. 125. 



Teeth aci;te, compressed. Snout depressed at the end, measuring 

 the distance from the anterior border of the orbit to the car; canthus 

 rostralis obtuse. Nostril suboval, twice nearer the tip of the snout 

 than the orbit. Digits long. Tail compressed, keeled above. Scales 

 of head small, larger than those on the temples : supraocular scales 

 equal, very small, granular. Scales on upper surfaces small, oval, 

 tectiform. Abdominal scales feebly keeled, in one hundred and 

 twenty to one hundred and thirty transverse series. Caudal scales 

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

 Upper surfaces black, with yellow punctulations arraiiged in trans- 

 verse bands on the back and lunate bands on the neck ; limbs with 

 largo yellow spots or annuli ; lower surfaces yellow or greenish, with 

 transverse black bands ; tail alternately black and yellow in its 

 posterior half. 



centun. 



Total length 148 



Head 



Neck 



Body 



Australia. 



a. Ad. 



h. Ad. 



c, d. Ad., stuffed. 



e,/. Ad., stuffed. 



9 



i;^ 



Gayndah. 



Australia. 

 Australia, 

 Australia, 



centmi. 



Fore limb 19 



Hind limb 25 



Tail 93 



Godefli-oy Museum. 

 J. Gould, Esq, [P,], 



