72 SAURIA. 



The specimens in the Paris Museum are said to be from the coast of Coromandel. Jerdon 

 (Journ. As. See. Bengal, xxii. p. 476) says that he has recognized the species : " it is some- 

 what locally distributed. I have seen it in the Salem and Coimbatoor districts only, especially 

 near the banks of the Cavery. It frequents bushy ground, hedges of Euphorbia and clumps 

 of Cactus." Mr. Blyth adds that the Museum at Calcutta contains examples of what he 

 takes to be this species, from Find Dadun Khan, in the Punjab Salt Eange ; and that it 

 formerly possessed the same from Afghanistan. 



OPHIOPS, Mcnetrirs. 



Nostrils on the ridge of the snout, hetween an upper and lower nasal plate, 

 both being rather swollen ; three small shields behind the nostril. Eyelids 

 none ; collar none, only a small fold before each shoulder. Ventral shields 

 four-sided, rhombic, smooth ; scales on the back rhombic, keeled, imbricate. 

 Femoral pores. Toes 5 — 5, keeled beneath, not toothed on the sides. 



Mr. Blyth refers to this genus a species which we have not seen : — 



Ophiops jerdoni (Joiu-n. As. Soc. Bcng. xxii. p. G53) : — " Dark bronze above, black-spotted, with two 

 obscui'e broad dorsal streaks ; below white throughout. Femoral pores seven or eight. Shields of head 

 plaited longitudinally. Length of head and body 1^ inch, of tail 2^ inches, of hind limb | inch. Procured 

 at Mhow, in pasture land, by T. C. Jerdon, Esq." 



ACANTIIODACTYLUS, Fitzinger. 



Nostril between three shields, the lower of which is the first labial. Eye- 

 lids present; a scaly fold across the throat. Ventral scales four-sided, 

 smooth. Femoral pores. Toes 5 — 5, keeled beneath, and toothed on the 

 sides. 



The species hitherto known of this genus are African ; but it also appears to be represented 

 in the East Indies : Jerdon refers a Lizard from the Nilgherries to this genus ; and I have 

 also found an Acanthodactylus in the late East India Company's Collection, stated to be from 

 Hindostan. Following is the description from which we are expected to recognize the 

 species discovered by Mr. Jerdon ; it appears to differ from the other {A. cantoris) in its 

 coloration : — 



Acanthodactylus nilgherrensis, Jerd. (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 476) :— " Anterior edge of ear toothed, 

 scaly ; collar transverse ; scales of back somewhat lai'ger behind than in front ; an occipital plate.— This 



