Ophiops 



•207 



Measurements (iu millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent 



,, fore limb 

 Length of liea<l 

 Widtli of heail 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb 

 Foot 

 Tail 



Particulars of Specimens Examined 



? Brumagherry Hills (type) 

 S ,, ' (*"ype of 0. 



monticola) 



33 28 29 18 10-11 19 



J S. Canara .... 



Habitat. — Hills of Western India: Brumagherry Hills in Wynaad. 

 about 1600 m., South Cauara, and Khaudala, 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. 



Ophiops elegans (nou Mcnt'tr.), Boettg. in Kobelt, Eeis. Alg. Tunis, 

 p. 467 (1885). 



Ophiops occidentalis, Bouleug, Cat, Liz. iii, p. 75, pi. iii, fig. 2 (1887), 

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

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

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



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



Body moderately depressed. Head feebly depressed. If to li times 

 as long as liroad, its depth equal to the distance lietweeu the anterior 



