322 TARANID^. 



rostralis indistinct. Nostril round or uval, a little nearer the end of 

 the snont than the ej-e. Digits rather long. Tail round, slightly 

 compi'essed posteriorly, not keeled. Head-scales large, flat, the 

 largest being those between the orbits ; a central series of three or 

 four transversely dilated supraocnlar scales. Scales on upper sur- 

 faces large, oval, keeled on posterior part of back. Abdominal 

 scales keeled, in eighty to ninety transverse rows. Cuadal scales 

 keeled, l^pper parts bright green, with a black network sometimes 

 forming transverse bars on the back ; lower surfaces yellowish, 

 unspotted. 



centim. centim. 



Total length 68-8 Fore limb 9-3 



Head 4-5 Hind limb 11-5 



Neck 4-3 Tail 44 



Body 16 



New Guinea, and islands of Torres Straits. 



a. Ad. New Guinea. Dr. Coppinger [C.]. 



(H.M.S. ' Alert.') 



b. Ad. Islands of Torres Straits. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C. 

 c-d. Ad. & yg. Cornwallis Island. Rev. S. Macfarlane C.^ 

 e~h. Ad. Murray Island. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C' 



23. Varanus kordensis. 



Monitor kordensis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 131 ; Peters Sf 



Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. 1878, p. 3.35, pi. ii. fig. 4. 

 beccarii, Doria, Afin. Mus. Genov. vi. 1874, p. 331, pi. xi. fig. a. 



Distinguished from the preceding in having the scales of the neck 

 and back smaller, more elongate, and very strongly keeled. Spe- 

 cimen a is dark olive above, with a black network ; specimen h is 

 entirely black, lighter beneath. 



Western New Guinea. 



a. Ad. Kordo, Mysore. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. (One 



of the types.) 

 h. Ad. New Giunea. South of — Comree, Esq. [C.]. 



Huon Gulf. 



24. Varanus punctatus. 



Odatria punctata, Gray, Cat. p. 7. 

 Odatria punctata. Gray, Ann. N. H. i. 1838, p. 394, and Zool. Erebus 



^- Terror, Rept. pi. i. 

 Monitor tristis, Schleg. Ahhild. p. 73. 

 Varanus punctatus, A. Dum. Cat. 3feth. Rept. p. 49. 

 Monitor punctatus, Peters Sf Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. 1878, 



p. 338. 



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

 less than the distance from the anterior border of the orbit to the 

 ear ; canthus rostralis sharp. Nostril round, slightly nearer the 



