322 VARANID. 
tostralis indistinct. Nostril round or oval, a little nearer the end of 
the snout than the eye. Digits rather long. ‘Tail round, slightly 
compressed posteriorly, not keeled. Head-scales iarge, flat, the 
largest being those between the orbits; a central series of three or 
four transversely dilated supraocular 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. Upper 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. seveac us 45 Hindlimb ...... 11°5 
Netk sacceahcen ate 4:3 Paik ceescsmieate cence 44 
Body. esas ees’ 16 
New Guinea, and islands of Torres Straits. 
a, Ad. New Guinea. Dr. Coppinger [C.]. 
(MS. “Alert.’) 
b, Ad. Islands of Torres Straits. Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.]. 
e-d, Ad. & yg. Cornwallis Island. Rey. S. Macfarlane ' C.). 
e-h, Ad. Murray Island. Rev. 8. Macfarlane [C.]. 
23. Varanus kordensis. 
Monitor kordensis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p- 181; Peters & 
Doria, Ann. Mus, Genov. xiii. 1878, p. 335, pl. ii. fig. 4. 
becearii, Doria, Aun, Mus. Genov. vi. 1874, p. 381, pl. xi. fig. u. 
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 6 is 
entirely black, lighter beneath. 
Western New Guinea. 
a, Ad. Kordo, Mysore. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. (One 
of the types.) 
b. Ad. New Guinea, 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. pl. i. 
Monitor tristis, Schleg. Abbild. p. 78. 
Varanus punctatus, A, Dum, Cat. Méth. Rept. p. 49. 
ae punctatus, Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. 1878, 
Pp. doo. 
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 
