I"38 NELLY DE ROOY. REPTILES. 



Alkmaar on Lorentz River 1907, 1 spec. 

 Resi Camp 1907, 1 spec. 

 Kloof Camp 1912, 2 spec. 

 Beaufort River 1912, 4 spec. 



This form is always easily to be distinguished by the few, 4 — 6, small and widely 

 separated scales of the nuchal crest; a dorsal crest is absent. 

 Common throughout New Guinea. 



13. Gonyoceplialus auritus Meyer. 



Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 295; Transact. Zool. Soc. XX 1914, p. 225, pi. XXVIII fig. 3. 

 de Rooy, Indo-Austr. Rept. I 1915, p. 115. 



Etna Bay 1904, 1 spec. 

 Alkmaar 1909, 1 spec. 

 Lorentz River 1909, 2 spec. 

 Kloof Camp 191 2, 1 young spec. 



Nuchal and dorsal crests separated by a notch above the shoulder; no enlarged scales 

 below the ear. 



Restricted to New Guinea. 



14. Pkysignatkus temporalïs (Gthr.). 



Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 397, pi. XXXI ng. 4. 

 de Rooy, Indo-Austr. Rept. I 1915, p. 131. 



Merauke 1904, 12 spec. 



The collection of 12 well-preserved spécimens contains young and adult ones. The greater 

 part distinctly shows the light line along the side from axilla to groin and the dark throat 

 with a light streak on each side. The species reaches a length of 414 mm. (tail 313 mm.). 

 It occurs in New Guinea as well as in N. Australia and in some small islands west of New Guinea: 

 Kei Islands, Timor Laut, Babber and Damma. From Timor Laut there is another species 

 known in two female spécimens only : P. macidilabris Blgr. ; from New Guinea one single spécimen 

 of P. lesueuri (Gray), found on the Arfak Mts. and naturally occurring in Queensland. 



Fam. Varanidae. 



15. Varanus indiens (Daud.). 



Boulenger, Cat. Liz. II 1885, p. 316. 



de Rooy, Indo-Austr. Rept. I 1915, p. 148. 



Sabang on Lorentz river 1907, 1 spec. 



Alkmaar 1907, 1 spec. 



Van Weel's Camp 1907, 2 spec. 



Lorentz River 1907, 3 spec. 



Alkmaar 1909, 1 spec. and two skins. 



Bivak Island 1909, 3 spec. 



Lorentz River 1909, 1 spec. 



This lizard common in the eastern part of the Archipelago, is spread over the whole 

 of New Guinea. 



