63 J Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the [July, 



the posterior half deep chocolate with two distant, (the second subter- 

 minal,) indistinct gamboge coloured rings. 



Beneath. Ground-colour pale chocolate. Chin, throat, chest and 

 forelimbs transversely undulated with greenish yellow ; abdomen with 

 short, interrupted, transversal yellow bands, consisting of from 4 to 12 

 scales ; hind-limbs with larger similar spots ; anterior half of the tail 

 indistinctly marbled with yellowish green ; posterior half like the upper 

 surface. Pupil round ; iris narrow golden. 



Adult. — Above brownish olive with yellow dots ; anterior half of 

 the tail yellow with minute square brown spots ; posterior half brown 

 and yellow-ringed ; margins of the toes yellow. Beneath marbled and 

 barred with brown and yellow. 



Habit. — Pinang. 



Java, Siam, Bengal. 

 The only individual observed was a young male, captured in the hills 

 at Pinang, of the following dimensions : 



Length of the head, If inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 5f 



Ditto ditto tail, 9 



Entire length, 16 inches. 



Varanus flavescens, (Gray). 



Syn. — Monitor flavescens, Gray. 



Monitor hardwickii. Gray, MSS. 



Varanus russellii, Schlegel, MSS. 



Monitor exanthamaticus, Var indica, Schlegel. 



Varanus picquotii, Dum and Bibr. 



Empagusia flavescens, Gray : Catal. 



Muzzle obtuse ; nostrils oval, oblique, nearer the muzzle than the 

 orbit ; a series of supraorbital scales larger than the rest ; scales of 

 the back distant, bluntly keeled, of the tail and outside of the hind- 

 limbs closer, sharply keeled ; toes very short, nails yellow. 



Above. Ground-colour light green-olive with numerous distant, 

 interrupted, transversal, yellow bands ; temples, cheeks and lips yellow. 

 Beneath yellow ; the throat with transversal pale brownish bands. 

 Habit. — Pinang. 



Bengal, Nipal. 



A single male observed was of the following dimensions : 



