12. opnioPB. 



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3. Ophiops occidentalis. (Plate III. fig. 2.) 



Ophiops elogans (now Mendlr.), BoetU/er, in Kobelt, Heis. Alg. Tunis, 

 p. 407. 



Head moderate, fechly depressed. Upper head-shields smooth ; 

 nostril lateral, pierced between au upper and a lower nasal, and fol- 

 lowed by one or two postnasals ; frontonasal single ; four supra- 

 oculars, first and fourth small, all in contact with the supraciliaries ; 

 occipital very small, wideh' separat(>d from the interparietal, or 

 absent ; subocular bordering the lip, between the fourth and fifth 

 upper labials ; temporal scales small, smooth ; two large supratera- 

 porals, bordering the parietal ; a very large, operele-like tympanic 

 shield. Xo gular fold ; collar undistinguishable. Dorsal scales 

 very large and sharply keeled, larger than the laterals, and but little 

 if at all smaller than the caudals ; 26 to 30 scales round the middle 

 of the body, ventrals included. A more or less enlarged postero- 

 median pra\aiial plate. The hind limb reaches the ear, or halfway 

 between the latter and the arm, in the male, the axilla or not quite 

 80 far in the female. 7 to 10 (usually 7 or 8) femoral pores on each 

 side. Tail once and a half to twice as long as head and body. Olive 

 or bronzy above, with black spots, and one or two light longitudinal 

 streaks on each side ; lower surfaces white. 



4. Ophiops elegans. 



Opliiops elegans, Gray, Cat. p. 44. 



macrodact^lus, Gray, I. c. 



Ophiops elegans, Menetr. Cat. "Rais. p. G3 ; Dum. ^ Bihr. v. p. 2o9, 

 pi. liii. tig. 1 ; Eichw. Faun. Ca>>p.-Caiic. p. 78, pi. xii. fio-s. 1-5; 

 Berth. Abh. Ges. Gottim/. 1840, p. oG; Ayiders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1872, p. 374; Schreib. Herp. Ear. p. 372 ; Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, 

 p. 367 ; Boettg. Ber. Senekenb. Ges. 1879-80, p. l74, and in Radde, 

 Faun. Flor. Casp.-Geb. p. 48. 



