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lids expanded, plaited on the edge, and purple within ; the back 

 is minutely scaly, with numerous polished, round-based trihedral 

 tubercles, of the colour of the part on w hich they are placed. 



The scales of the chiu are small and smooth ; those of the 

 abdomen larger, imbricate, circumscribed on the side of the 

 body by a slightly crenulated raised edge of tubercles, and 

 separated from the smaller scales of the hinder part of the thighs 

 by a series of larger scales, which just occupies the place usually 

 filled by the femoral pores; the lower surface of the tail is fur- 

 nished with a central series of broad short scales. 



The upper surface is pale brown, with a broad horse>shoe-shaped 

 pUrple-brown band edged with white, passing from the back of 

 each eye over the ear to the back of the head ; a similar band 

 extends over the shoulders, and then follow three rings of the 

 same colour on the body, and seven on the tail. 



Length of the body 3 inches ; of head If ; of tail — ? 



Fam. V. VARANIDiE. 



Gen. 1. Monitor. 

 The animals of this genus are aquatic ; they have the tail above 

 compressed and keeled, and beneath rounded, and the nostrils 

 ovate, small, placed laterally, nearer the tip of the nose than the 

 eye. 



1. M. elegans. 



Tupinambis elegans. Daudin, Rept. ? 



Tupinambis bivittatus. Kuhl, Beitr. 123. Boic, Isis, 



1826. 1. 205. 

 Monitor elegant de I'Archipcl des Indes. Ctiv. Regne 



Anim. ii. 24. 

 ^Monitor de Java. Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 288. 

 Varanus elegans. Merrcm^ Rept. 58. 

 Inhabits Cawnpore and Dheliah, near Futtehghur. 

 The nostrils are placed at less than half the distance from the 

 tip of the nose to the eye ; the head is plain olive, with two 

 darker streaks over the ears, and some yellow bands on the front 

 of the nose, by which it is to be distinguished from the African 

 Monitor, T. elegans^ Kuhl, well figured by Petiver( Gaz.t. 1 5. f. 6.). 



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