1, VARANUS. 313 
eighty-five transverse rows. Caudal scales keeled, the lateral some- 
times intermixed with larger ones; the caudal keel with a very low, 
doubly-toothed crest. Light brown above; a dark temporal streak, 
from eye to car, generally confluent with a U-shaped dark marking on 
the neck; back with very broad dark transverse bars, broader than 
the interspaces between them; limbs dark brown, spotted with yellow; 
more or less distinct vertical dark bars on the lips; belly yellowish, 
uniform or with transverse dark bands. 
centim. centim. 
Total length ...... 81 Fore limb ........ 12 
ICS ate a 4 sine oss 6 Hind limb........ 15 
INGGIE oy be eo is 8 Tail (injured) .... 44 
Body. 6 os scu equ 23 
Borneo; Sumatra; Tenasserim. 
a, Ad. Borneo. 
6. Ad. Borneo. H. Low, Esq. [P.]. 
ce, Ad Sumatra. Hr. C. Bock [C.]. 
d. Her. —? Dr. Bleeker. 
10. Varanus rudicollis. 
Uaranus rudicollis, Gray, Cat. p. 10. 
Teeth acute, compressed, Snout pointed, very long, considerably 
‘longer than the distance from the anterior corner of the eye and the 
ear; canthus rostralis swollen. Nostril an oblique slit, its distance 
from the tip of the snout twice and a half that from the orbit. 
Digits elongate. Tail compressed, keeled above. Scales of head 
moderate, subequal; supraccular scales with a posterior central 
series of three to six transversely dilated scales. Scales on upper 
surface of neck extremely large and prominent, strongly keeled, 
forming ten to twelve longitudinal series; they become gradually 
smaller as they pass into the dorsal region ; latter and limbs with 
small, strongly-keeled scales. Abdominal scales keeled, in eighty- 
five transverse series. Caudal scales keeled; the caudal keel with 
a very low, doubly-toothed crest. Blackish above, neck and an- 
terior part of body yellowish, the former with three black longi- 
tudinal streaks, the latter with two broad transverse black bands ; 
hinder part of back and flanks with yellowish ocelli; limbs with 
small yellowish spots ; lower surfaces obscured by black reticulations. 
centim. . centim. 
Total length ...... 84 Fore limb ........ 17 
Head. oy earcyesivaies 9 Hind limb........ 20 
Neth 600.0 ee 11 Tuil (injured) 40 
Body sate ewcaies 24 
Philippines ; Borneo. 
a. Ad., stuffed. Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.].  (Type.) 
b. Ad., stuffed. Sarawak. 
