74 SAURIA. 



Total length 7 inches: — head 7 lines; tail 4^ inches; fore limb 11 lines; fourth (longest) 

 finger 3| lines ; hind limb 18 lines ; third toe 3^ lines ; fourth (longest) toe 6 lines ; fifth toe 

 5 lines. 



The British Museum received the example on which I have founded this species from 

 the East India Collection, to which it had been presented by Dr. Cantor ; it is stated to be 

 from Ramnuggar. 



FAMILY OF COBBYLES—ZONUBWy^. 



Head covered with regular, symmetrical, many-sided shields. Tongue 

 flat, nicked. Scales of the back and tail large, squarish ; sides with a 

 distinct longitudinal fold ; scales of the belly square or roundish, in cross 

 bands. Tail rounded. Ears distinct ; eyes diurnal, with lids. 



Only one species of this family is found in the East Indies. 



PSEUDOPUS. 



Pseudopus et Hyalinus, Merrem. 

 Seps (part.) et Ophisaurus, Daudin. 

 Pseudopus, Ophisaurus, et Dopasia, Gi-aij. 

 Ophiseps, BIyth. 



Body and tail long, snake-like, without limbs, or with only one pair of 

 rudimentary hind legs. Scales quadrangular, arranged in transverse series. 



Three species only of this very remarkable genus are known : one from North America, 

 Ophisaurus ventralis, with the palatine teeth in a broad band ; the second from South-Eastern 

 Europe and Northern Asia, Pseudoptis pallasii, with rudimentary hind limbs ; and, finally, 

 the Ps. gracilis from Khasya. 



