IG. oririoMORua. 395 



a-b. Ad. Nasirabab, Seistan. 



Gen. Goldsmid [P.]. 



c. Ad. Candahar. Col. Swinhot) [I*-]. 



d. Ad. Ileluiaiul. Dr. Aitchison [C.]. Afghan 



l')()Uiid;irv Conim. 

 e-f. Ad. I'liiijab. W. Tlioobald. Esq. [C.]. 



g-k. Ad. Punjab. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Opliiomorus Ijlanfordii. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 1.) 



Zvgnido])sis brt'vipes {nun Blanf. 1674), Blanf. Juurn. As. Soc. Beng. 

 "xlviii. ]87!>, p. ]i^8. 



Snout wedge-shaped, wilb angularly projecting labial edge. 

 Nostril close to the rostral ; supranasals forming a long suture ; 

 two loreals, first largest and in contact with the third and fourth 

 upper labials ; frontonasal moderate, not half as long as the frontal ; 

 prttfrontals longer than broad, widely separated ; frontal slightly 

 longer than broad ; four supraoculars, first and second in contact 

 with the prajfrontal ; two supraciliaries, behind the first su])raocular ; 

 frontoparietals much smaller than pra}frontals ; intcri)arietal as long 

 as broad, a little shorter than the frontal ; parietals narrow, band- 

 like ; no nuchals ; first and second labials in contact with the nasal, 

 fifth largest, fifth and sixth below the eye. Ear hidden. Two 

 azygos postmentals. Body much elongate, with angular latero- 

 ventral edge, with two pairs of short limbs, the anterior tetradactyle, 

 the posterior tridactyle ; the hind limb proportionally more developed 

 than the anterior, a little longer than the distance between the fore 

 limb and the anterior corner of the eye, and contained thrice and 

 two thirds in the distance from the fore limb. 20 scales round the 

 body, subeqiial. Two enlarged praeanals. Tail a little shorter than 

 head and bod}', ending in a point. Cream-coloured, each dorsal 

 scale with a central brown dot, which form two lines on the middle 

 of the back and a dark band on each side, beginning from the nostril 

 and passing through the eye ; the two vertebral lines unite into a 

 streak on the middle of the head. 



rnillim. millim. 



Total length 150 Fore limb 8 



Head 10 Hind limb 15 



Width of head 6 Tail 72 



Body 68 



Persia or Baluchistan ? 

 a. Ad. ? W. T. Blauford, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Ophiomorus hrevipes. 



Zygnopsis brevipes, Blanf. Ann. S^ Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 33, 

 and Zool. E. Persia, p. 397, pi. xxvii. fig. 4. 



Snout conical, rounded, the rostral projecting beyond the lip. 

 Nostril nearly equally distant from the rostral and the anterior 

 loreal (?) ; two loreals ; frontonasal moderate, about half as long as 



