Opiiiops. -211 



As mentioned in Vol. I, p. 339, I cannot help tliinking Boscu's 

 AUjiroides hidalgoi, said to be from San Ildefonso, Sierra de Gruadar- 

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



4. OPHIOPS ELEGANS. 



Ophiops elegans, Mcnetr. Cat. Eais. p. 63 (1832) ; 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 (1876) ; Blanf. 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., 

 Kept. p. 175 (1890), and Journ. Linn. Soc. sxvii, 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. 360 (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 ehrenhergii, Wiegm. Arch. f. Nat. 1835, ii, p. 1. 



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



Ophiops inaerodactylus, Berth. I.e. ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 44. 



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



Ophiops meizolepis, Blanf. op. cit. p. 369, pi. xxv, fig. 2. 



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

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

 i. 1905, p. 141. 



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

 1888, p. 506, and (9) ii, 1918, p. 161. 



Ophiops elegans, vars. ehrenhergii, persicns, mizolepig, 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 tyj)es 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 on specimens from Eastern Transcaucasia, in 

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

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

 to the Paris Museum by Menetries. 



