Identifier: zoologyofegypt01ande (find matches)
Title: Zoology of Egypt
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Anderson, John, 1833-1900 Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. Fishes of the Nile De Winton, William Edward
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London, B. Quaritch
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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about four scales. Uppersurface of the tail more or less banded with brown. The under surface greyish yellow.The sides of the belly marked with the beginning of dark bands, which becomestronger above. Eyes reddish yellow; pupil black. In an adult from Anseba valley, the yellow spots are obscurely indicated and thegeneral colour of the upper surface is yellowish brown marked with blackish spots,the dark bands on the sides of the belly feebly marked. A broad brown band, thebreadth of the temporal area, is prolonged backwards along the side of the neck to theshoulder, and obscurely on to the fore limb, and another but narrow similarly colouredband runs from the upper margin of the ear backwards, separated from the former bya yellowish interspace. Under surface rather rich gamboge-yellow. The band that passes on to the limb seems to be the equivalent of the well-definedband of V. albigularis that bends abruptly forwards on to the pectoral area. Snout to vent 375 millim.; tail 367 millim.
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C/j D E- .2 S ! VARANUS OCELLATUS. 139 This is a terrestrial lizard with the habits of V. griseas, and, according to Heyden, itburrows and lives on other lizards and beetles. Mr. Blanford obtained his specimen under a rock, in rather open ground, in theAnseba valley. It is known only from Kordofan and Abyssinia. Heyden founded the species on a specimen obtained by Ruppell at Kordofan, and,according to Prof. Boettger, it was presented to the Frankfort Museum in 1827. Inthe following year a Varanus from Abyssinia was also presented by Dr. Ruppell.Dr. J. E. Gray, in his Synopsis of Reptiles in Griffiths Animal Kingdom, gave a list ofthe species of Varanidce he had noted in the different museums of Europe, and amongthem he enumerates Monitor ocellatus, Heyden, as existing in the Frankfort Museum ;but, strange to say, he does not mention Kordofan as the locality of the species, butadds to his short diagnosis of it Dongola, Senegal. Mus. Ruppell. No specimen

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