1. VARANUS. 323 
end of the snout than the orbit. Digits moderate. Tail round, 
sometimes compressed posteriorly, not keeled. Head-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. centim. 
Total length...... 72:5 Fore limb ........ 8 
Head .......... 45 Hind limb........ 11 
INCCE Saigon scaesceane 7 Pail oswse vanes 44 
Body vices age enles 17 
North and West Australia. 
a, Ad. Torres Straits, J. B. Jukes, Esq. Lae 
6, Ad., stuffed. Port Essington. J.McGillivray, Esq.[C.]. 
ce. Her., stuffed. Port Essington. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 
d-e,f. Ad. & yg. North Austral. Exped. Dr. J. R. Elsey (eh 
g. Ad., stuffed. N.W. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 
A. Yg. Perth, W. Australia. Mr. Duboulay [C.]. 
z. Yg. W. Australia. 
k,l. Ad. & yg. Australia. ; 
m,n, Ad. & hgr, -—? Haslar Collection. 
o. Her. —? 
25. Varanus timorensis. 
Odatria timorensis, Gray, Cat. p. 8. 
Monitor timorensis, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Synops, p. 26; Schleg. 
Abbild. p. 74. 
Varanus timoriensis, Dum. § 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 rows 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 temporal streak is generally very distinct ; 
upper face of tail generally with well-defined black annuli; lower 
surfaces whitish ; throat with blackish dots. 
Timor; North Australia. 
a, Ad. Timor. Leyden Museum. 
b-c, Ad. Murray Island. Rey. S. Macfarlane (wh 
d. Ad. Thursday Island, Torres Dr. Pole [C.]. 
Straits, (H.M.S. ‘ Alert.’) 
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