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Habitat. — Hills of Western India : Brumagherry Hills in Wvuaad, 

 about 1500 m., South Canara, and Khandala. near Bombav. 



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. 



Opliiops elegans (non Mt'nctr.), Boettg. in Kobelt, Reis. Alg. Tunis, 

 p. 467 (1885). 



Ophiops occidentalis, Bouleng. 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. xxvii, 1909, p. 609. 



? Algiroides hidalgoi, Bosca, Bol. Soc. Esp. H. X. xvi, 1916, p. 294. 



Body moderately depressed. Head feebly depressed, If to H times 

 as long as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the anterior 



