Ophiops. 211 



As meutioued iu Vol. I, p. 339, I canuot help thiukiug Bosca's 

 Algiroides hidalgoi, said to be from San Ildefonso, Sierra de G-uadar- 

 rama, Central Spain, will prove to be identical with this species. 



4. OPHIOPS ELEGANS. 



Opliiops elegans, Meuctr. Cat. Rais. p. 63 (1882) ; Eichw. Eeise 

 Kasp. Meer. i, pt. 2, p. 744 (1837) ; Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 259, 

 pi. liii, fig. 1 (1839) ; Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 78, pi. xii, figs. 1-5 

 (1841) ; Berth. Abh. Ges. Getting, i, 1840, p. 56, pi. i, figs. 4, 5 ; 

 Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 44 (1845) ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 374; 

 Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 372 (1875) ; Blauf . Zool. E. Persia, p. 367 

 (1876); Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 174, and in Eadde, 

 Faun. Flor. Casp.-Geb. p. 48 (1886); Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 75 

 (1887) ; Boettg. Sitzb. Ak. Berl. 1888, p. 165 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., 

 Eept. p. 175 (1890), and Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii, 1899, p. 378; 

 Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xix, 1903, p. 334 ; Nikolsky, Herp. Eoss. 

 p. 141 (1905); Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxvii, 1909, p. 609; 

 Schreib. Herp. Eur., Ed. 2, p. 350 (1912)"; Nikolsky, Herp. Caucas. 

 p. 92 (1913); Barbour, Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club, v, 1914, p. 85; 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (9) ii, 1918, p. 158. 



Amystes ehrenbergii, Wiegm. Ai"ch. f. Nat. 1835, ii, p. 1. 



? Algira punctata. Gray, Ann. N. H. i, 1838, p. 283. 



Opliiops macrodadylus, Berth. I.e. ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 44. 



Gymnops meizolepis, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 124. 



Opliiops meizolepis, Blauf. op. cit. p. 369, pi. xxv, fig. 2. 



Ophiops schlueteri, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 176, pi. iii, 

 fig. 3 ; Bouleng. Cat. t.c p. 77 ; Annandale, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. (2) 

 i, 1905, p. 141. 



Ophiops elegans, var. schlueteri, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) ii, 

 1888, p. 505, and (9) ii, 1918, p. 161. 



Ophiops elegans, vars. ehrenbergii, p)ersicus, mizolepis, Bouleng. t.c. 

 1918, pp. 159, 160. 



As this species varies considerably in the lepidosis according to 

 districts, the following description is taken, for precision's sake, from one 

 of the types and from specimens from Central Asia Minor (Angora, 

 Kaisarieh, Albistan, Giaour Dagh), of which I have examined a large 

 series, and which represent the typical form in the restricted sense.* 

 Notes on the specimens from other parts of the extensive range of this 



* Ophiops elegans was founded ou specimens from Eastern Transcaucasia, in 

 which, according to Boettger, the number of scales and plates round the body 

 varies between 34 and 40. I have examined one of the types, from Baku, sent 

 to the Paris Museum by Menetries. 



