282 SQTJAMATA. 



Group A. — The dorsal vertebrae elongated, with broad neural spines. 

 All the species of moderate size. 



Varanus bengalengfe (Daudin 1 ). 



Syn. Tupinambis bengalensis, Daudin 2 . 

 Monitor draccena, Gray 3 . 

 Varanus draccsna, Giinther 4 . 



Of small size, the total length being 1,710. 

 Hab. India. 



Fig. 64. 



Varanus bengalensis. — Eight maxilla (A), and a dorsal vertebra from the anterior 

 (B) and posterior (0) aspects; from the Pleistocene of Madras. \. 

 (From the ' Palseontologia Indica.') 



R. 719. Fragments of jaws, vertebrae, and imperfect limb-bones, 

 probably belonging to this species ; from the Pleistocene 

 of the Billa Surgam Caves, Karnul, Madras. . Similar 

 specimens (fig. G4) are described by the writer in the 

 ' Pahcontologia Indica ' (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), jser. x. 

 vol. iv. p. 55. Presented by the Director of the 



Geological Survey of India, 188G. 



Varanus, sp. 



The following specimens probably belong to one of the existing 

 Australian species, porhaps V. giganteus. 

 Hab. Australia. 



1 Hist. Eept. vol. iii. p. 67 (1802). — Tupinambis. 2 hoc. cit. 



A Cat. of Lizards in Brit. Mus. p. 11 (1845). 

 4 Reptiles of British India, p. 65 (1864). 



