CLASS REPTILIA, 



Division I. 



Tongue long, deeply bifurcated, teeth placed on the inner 

 edge of the jaws* 



Gen. I. Monitor. 



Tongue retractile, head covered with small polygonal shields. 

 Inhabiting the old world, living near water. 



1. Tail compressed, nostrils subapical, or medial, open; 

 Monitor, nob. 



Two Banded Monitor, Mon. bivittatus, nob. Tupinambis 

 bivittatus. Kuhl. 



Black, with five cross rows of white spots or rings, back of 

 head spotted, above banded ; cheeks, with two black 

 streaks ; nostrils subapical. India. Jun., more spotted. Tup. 

 exilis. Reinw. Mss. Mus. Brit. 



Laced Monitor, Mon. Varia^n. Lacerta Varia, Shaw. White. 

 Voy. t. p. 253. Phil. Voy. t. at p. 279. 



Nostrils one-third from the tip of the nose; toes short; sub- 

 equal. New Holland. Tup. Marmoratus, Oppel. of 

 Manilla, appears to be a variety. Mus. Brit. 



Yellowish Monitor, Mon. Flavescens, nob. Uran. Russelii, 



Schegel. 



Yellowish, brown netted, scales very large ; toes very short, 

 nearly equal, India. Mus. Ruppel. 



Eyed Monitor, Mon. Ocellatus, Von Heyden Ruppel Atlas, t. 



Yellowish brown, with pale eyed spots, dorsal scales oblong, 



* All the species of the genera of this section require a complete re- 

 examination, the following is only an attempt at noting the species 

 which I have seen named in collections. 



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