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Hind liml) 



Foot 



Tail 

 1. J, Baku (type). 2. (^, Kaisavieli. 3. ^, Angora. 4. $, 

 Angora. 5. 2 , Kaiserieli. 



Hahifaf. — The continuous range of Opli,io])s elegans exteud^i from the 

 Bosphorus and Transcaucasia to Samos and the Southern Sporades, 

 Persia, Mesopotamia, Palestine, and the Sinaitic Peninsula. The 

 species also occurs in three outlying districts, viz. in Grreece at Ivryoneri, 

 Acarnania, opposite Patras, according to Werner (Wiss. Mitth. Bosn. 

 Herzeg. vi, 1899, p. 832), Dernali in Cvrenaica,* and the North- 

 Western Punjab (0. mizolepis, Stol.). 



The typical form appears to be confined to Transcaucasia, Armenia, 

 and Central Asia Minor. The types (Petrograd and Paris Museums) 

 are from Baku. 



Var. EHEENBERG-II, Wiegmann. 



As already pointed out by Boettger, the specimens from Western 

 Asia Minor and the Southern Sporades differ from the typical form in 

 having larger scales on an average. The same form occurs also in 

 Syria (Aunjstes ehrenbergii, Wiegm.), alongside with the small-scaled 

 specimens (0. scTilueteri, Boettg.), and on the Euphrates. 



The head is IJto \h times as long as bi-oad and may be contained 

 5 times (females) in length to vent. The hind limb reaches the collar 

 or the ear, or between these two points, in males, the elbow or beyond, 

 as far as between the collar and the ear in females. 



As regards the head-shields, I note the following exceptions to the 

 description given above of the typical form : The frontal may be 2J 

 times as long as broadf ; 3 or 5 upper labials anterior to the suhocular. J 

 The occipital is small or very small, and often separated from the 

 interparietal. The lower boi-der of the subocular measures + to ^ the 

 length of the upper, rarely rf. 



15 to 20 gular scales in a straight line. 28 to 34 scales and plates 

 round the middle of the body, the posterior dorsal scales sometimes 



* Except for Werner's statement that the scales and plates number 3G-38 

 ronnd the body and the femoral pores 8-10 in tlie Cyreuaica specimens, we 

 have no information on wliicli to refer these outposts to any one of tlie varieties 

 in particular. 



t In a female from Brumana, Lebanon. 



X On the right side in a female from Jerusalem ; a female from the Meander 

 Valley lias only three ujiper labials on each side. 



