12. OPHIOPS. 



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N.E. slope of Mount Dr. Anderson [C] 



Ilermon. 

 Banias, S. sLipe of 



Mount Ilermon. 

 Scba-tivoh, Samaria. 

 Baalbeck. 

 Galilee. 

 Foot of Mount Tabor, 



CJalilee. 

 Jerusalem. 



Rasrah, Mesopotamia. 

 Persia. 



Kuh-i-hazar, S.E. of 



Karman. 

 Karman. 



Niriz, E. of Shiraz. 

 Between Karman and 



Shiraz. 

 North of Isfahan. 



Dr. Anderson [C.]. 



Dr. .Vmlcrson [C.I. 

 Dr. Anderson [0." . 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 Dr. Anderson [P.]. 



Dr. Anderson [P.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [CJ. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



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5. Ophiops schlueteri. 



Ophiops schlueteri, part., Boettycr, Bet: Senckenh, Ges, 1879-1880, 

 p. 176, pi. iii. tig. 3. 



Very closely allied to 0. elegatis, of which it should perhaps rather 

 be regarded as a variety than as a distinct species. The following 

 are the differences : — Scales smaller, dorsals a little smaller than 

 laterals, not one-fourth the size of caudals ; 42 to 46 scales round 

 the middle of the body. Femoral pores 12 to 14. The giilar fold 

 and the collar are distinguishable. 



Cyprus. 



a-b. S 2 • 

 c-d. Hgr. 



Cj'prus. 

 Cj-prus. 



Lord Lilford [P.]. 



6. Ophiops microlepis. 



Ophiops (Gyranops) microlepis, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 



1870, p. 3ol, pi. XV. figs. 1-5. 

 Gymnops microlepi.'s, Sfoliczka, Journ. As, Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 90, 



and Proc. As. Sue. Beng. 1872, p. 74. 



Head much depressed ; snout long ; loreal region concave ; upper 

 labials projecting, angular. Upper head-shields smooth; nostril 

 latero-superior, pierced between an upper and a lower nasal ; a 

 small postnasal wedged in between the two nasals ; these three 

 shields more or less distinctly swollen ; frontonasal single ; prge- 

 frontals obtusely keeled ; frontal much narrowed posteriorly, grooved 

 longitudinally ; four supraoculars, first and fourth smallest, the two 

 principal separated from the supraciliaries by a series of granules ; 

 occipital small, broader than the interparietal, with which it is 

 usually in contact ; subocular bordering the lip, between the fourth 

 and fifth upper labials ; temporal scales smaU, obtusely keeled ; two 



