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Length :—snout to vent 8,” 8’; vent to tip of tail 5,” 2””; head 
6’” ; fore limb 10,” hind limb 1”, fourth toe 4.”” 
Hab. Punjab, Salt Range. 
Two specimens were collected by Mr. Theobald in the Salt 
Range of the Punjab, and presented by him to this Society and 
described by Mr. Blyth who created the above named genus for 
their reception. There cannot be a doubt as to their identity, 
but both, Blyth and Theobald, have fallen into some inaccu- 
racies regarding certain of their characters. The former says 
that the nostrilis pierced ina small, separate, nasal shield, an error 
repeated by Theobald. Mr. Blyth also states that the lower eye- 
lid has a translucent disk, but Mr. Theobald more accurately 
describes it as scaly, with a transverse row of large plates. He, 
however, says the body is surrounded by 28 rows of scales while 
the two specimens exhibit only 21 in the middle of the body, 
and Blyth limited them to 19. 
If I am wrong in my estimate of the value to be attached to the 
occurrence of the nostril between two plates, and the presence of 
the enlarged dorsal plates, then Blyth’s Zurylepis will stand, but 
for the reasons stated, I do not regard these characters as generic. 
Masovra BLYTHIANA, Nn. sp. 
- Rostral triangular, hexagonal, in contact with the supranasals. 
Anterior nasal triangular, rather small; posterior shield sub- 
quadrangular. Supranasals transversely oblong, forming a suture 
behind the rostral. Frontal transversely elongate, its anterior 
margins forming an obtuse angle. Posterior frontals large, 
hexagonal, forming a broad suture. Vertical elongate, lateral mar- 
gins slightly convergent posteriorly, hinder margins forming an 
obtuse angle. Preoccipitals pentagonal, forming a broad suture 
behind the vertical. An azygos, wedge-shaped occipital. Ex- 
occipitals of moderate size, pentagonal. Three rather large tem- 
porals between the exoccipitals and the two last upper labials, ° 
one anterior to the other two shields which lie one above the other, 
the former separated from the eye by a chain of small shields 
running from the anterior angle of the eye, along the upper eyelid 
and the lower margin of the eye to its anterior third. Six 
superciliaries, the first and last very small. A small point- 
