1. VARANU3. 



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end of the snout than the orbit. Digits moderate. Tail round, 

 sometimes compressed posteriori}', not keeled. Ilead-scales very 

 small, equal; supraocular scales smaller still, granular. Scales of 

 upper surfaces small, elongate, keeled. Abdominal scales smooth, 

 in eighty-five to ninety-five transverse rows. Caudal scales strongly 

 keeled, the keels forming small spines. Male with a tuft of spines 

 on each side of the base of the tail. Olive above, with narrow black 

 reticulated lines leaving large hexagonal spots ; limbs blackish, 

 yellowish spotted ; tail, at least in its posterior portion, uniform 

 black ; lower surface of body with or without more or less distinct 

 transverse blackish bands. 



centim. 



Total length 72-5 



Head 4*5 



Neck 7 



Body 17 



North and "West Australia. 



centim. 



Fore limb 8 



Hiudlimb 11 



Tail 44 



J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.l. 

 J. McGillivrav, Esq.[C.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 

 Dr. J. Pt. Elsey [C.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. rC.]. 

 Mr. Duboulay [0.]. 



Haslar Collection. 



25. Varanns timorensis. 



Odatria timorensis, GraT/, Cat. p. 8. 

 Monitor timorensis, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Synops. p, 26 ; Schleg. 



Ahbild. p. 74. 

 Varanus tinioriensis, Dnm. Sf Bibr. iii. p, 473. 

 (Odatria) semiremex, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 65. 



Very closely allied to the preceding, from which it is distinguished 

 in having the nostril exactly the same distance from orbit and end 

 of snout, and fewer transverse rovvs of abdominal scales, viz. sixty- 

 five to seventy-five. Male without tufts of spines near the vent. 

 Back yellowish or light olive with black network, or blackish closely 

 dotted with yellowish ; head and limbs blackish, dotted or spotted 

 with yellowish ; a black temjjoral streak is generally very distinct ; 

 upper face of tail generally with well-defined black annuli ; lower 

 surfaces whitish ; throat with blackisli dots. 



Timor ; Nortli Australia. 



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