OpJiiops. 



207 



Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent 



„ ,, ,, fore limlj 



Length of head 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head 



Fore limb .... 

 Hiud limb .... 



Foot 



Tail . . 



9 Brumagherry Hills (type) 

 6 -, * (t.ype of O. 



monticola) 



cJ S. Cauara .... 



Habitat.- — Hills of Western India : Brumagherry Hills in Wvnaad, 

 about 1500 m., South Canara, and Khandala, near Bombay. 



This species is very near the preceding, but more advanced in the 

 disintegration of the shields on the upper surface of the snout and 

 less in the shape of the frontal shield. 



3. OPHIOPS OCCIDENTALIS. 



0])hiops elegans (nou Mcuctr.), Boettg. in Eobelt, Eeis. Alg. Tunis, 

 p. 467 (1885). 



Ophiojjs occidentalis, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 75, pi. iii, fig. 2 (1887), 

 and Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii, 1891, p. 134; Werner, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. 

 Wien, xliv, 1894, p. 82 ; Doumergue, Erp. Oran. p. 204, pi. xv, fig. 3 

 (1901) ; Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxvii, 1909, p. 609. 



? Algiroides hidalgoi, Bosca, Bol. Soc. Esp. H. N. xvi, 1916, p. 294. 



Body moderately depressed. Head feebly depressed, If to 1^ times 

 as long as broad, its depth ecjual to the distance between the anterior 



