148 LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Varanus salvator Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 2 (1885) 314; 

 BOETTGER, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 100; Barbour, Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 44 (1912) 88; de Rooij, Kept. Indo-Aust. 

 Arch. 1 (1915) 146. 



Description of species. — (No. 1605, Bureau of Science col- 

 lection.) Snout moderately long, rather depressed at end; dis- 

 tance of nostril to end of snout twice that from nostril to eye; 

 diameter of tympanum equals distance from nostril to tip of 

 snout; above nostrils two distinctly raised areas with a distinct 

 groove between; scales on snout rather small, juxtaposed; nos- 

 trils longitudinally oval, separated from mouth by four rows 

 of scales, and from small rostral by five; a more or less dis- 

 tinct line or groove from base of nostril to eye sharply delineat- 

 ing the f renal from the supralabial region; three or four scale 

 rows on latter in front of eye, two below eye; four rows of 

 f renal scales; two rows of scales from anterior corner of eye 

 border orbit below, the outer Tow larger, composed of rectan- 

 gular scales; twenty-nine labial scales bordering upper lip, and 

 a similar number bordering lower lip; temporal region nearly 

 vertical; fifteen rows of small scales in temporal region; four 

 or five enlarged transverse supraocular scales, rather broken, 

 separated from superciliary region by two scale rows; twelve 

 superciliaries ; five scale rows between supraocular regions; 

 parietal scales rather enlarged, sixteen scales in a line across 

 occiput; nuchal scales enlarged, not or but slightly larger than 

 dorsals, arranged in about sixteen to eighteen rows ; scales above 

 small, oval, keeled; below small, regular, keeled or smooth, 

 arranged in transverse rows, about seventy rows from axilla 

 to groin; about the same number of scales in the transverse 

 rows; digits moderate, scales below digits small, arranged in 

 transverse series, about twenty-eight under longest toe; a row 

 of rounded tubercles along lower margin on basal half of fourth 

 toe on side next third toe, and a shorter series on third toe; 

 scales on bottom of foot small, rounded. 



Color in life.— Above deep black with five transverse rows of 

 yellow ocelli, about five in each row; traces of two yellow bars 

 present on snout; a yellow ring about tympanum, and a narrow 

 line behind; scattered yellow scales on limbs; tail barred with 

 yellow above; below, belly yellow, with traces of eleven black 

 bars from neck to groin ; throat yellow, with a few black spots ; 

 tail not barred below. 



