Ophioijs. 205 



w:th Ca6r. «;..,/o«., and, ^ere it not for the generic distinction based 

 upon the structure of the eyelids, would be regarded as closely alUed 

 It canno. however, be derived- from it, as the presence of an 

 ocap.tal . a feature of greater generalization. We'have the efo" 

 to n„ag,ne as the direct ancestor of 0. jeraonii, a species of C^^ 

 now probably extmct, very similar in all respects to C. ,Wo,nrbut 

 with an occipital shield. 7''«o?ni, out 



2. OPHIOPS BEDDOMII. 



Pseudophloi.s beddomii, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870 p 70 

 Ophiops monticola, Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc 1870 p 35 

 OpJuopsbecMomii, Sloliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli, 1872 p 90- 



^'"^^t'tmr ' '"' '' ''' «-^ ^^««^)'-^-- ^^^Xt. 



Body moderately depressed. Head moderately depressed, U to 

 1, times as long as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the 

 entre of the eye and the tympanum, its length 3J to 4 times in leng^! 

 o vent; .nout obtusely pointed, with sharp canthus and feebly concave 

 b eal region, as long as the postocular part of the head ; a sharp keel 

 be ow the eye. Piieus twice as long as broad. Neck as broad a! 01 a 

 ttle narrower than the head. The hind limb reaches the shoulder or 

 the collar m males, the axil in females ; foot a little longer than the 

 tfiotT '""'" ^°™P--^^- Tail If to 2 times as long as head 

 Upper head-shields rugose with keels and granular asperities 

 fiontal,parieals and intraparietal each with two keels; nostril pierced 

 between o sine ds nasals forming a suture behind the rostral 

 frontonasal divided into 2 small shields, which are about as lar^e as 

 the upper part of the nasals, sometimes with a third shield between 

 them ; prefrontals longer than broad, usually separated by a narrow 

 shield, rarely by 2, one in front of the other; frontal as long as iti 

 distance from the end of the snout, 1|- to 2 times as long as broad 

 of nearly equal width throughout, or a little narrower posteriorly' 

 parietals longer than broad; interparietal 1^ to 2 times as lono- as 

 broad, m contact with a much shorter occipital, which may be a little 

 broader, and the rounded posterior border of which projects beyond 

 the parietals. 4 supraoculars, first in contact with the frontal and 

 usually broken up into 2 or 3 small keeled shields, fourth usually 



