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As nieutioued iu Vol. I, p. 339, I canuot help tliiukiiig Bosca's 

 Algiroides hidahjoi, said to be from San Ildefonso, Sierra de Guadar- 

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



4. OPHIOPS ELEG-ANS. 



Opliiops elegans, Mcnetr. Cat. Rais. p. 63 (1832); Eichw. Eeise 

 Kasp. Meer. i, pt. 2, p. 744 (1837) ; Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 259, 

 pi. liii, fio-. 1 (1839) ; Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 78, pi. xii, figs. 1-5 

 (1841) ; Berth. Abh. Ces. Cutting, i, 1840, p. 56, pi. i, figs. 4, 5 ; 

 Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 44 (1845) ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 374; 

 Sehreib. Herp. Eur. p. 372 (1875) ; Blanf. Zool. E. Persia, p. 367 

 (1876); Boettg. Ber. Seuck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 174, and in Radde, 

 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. xxvii, 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; 

 Sehreib. Herp. Eur., Ed. 2, p. 350 (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 ehrenbergii, Wiegm. Arch. f. N"at. 1835, ii, p. 1. 



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



Opliiops macrodactylus, Berth. I.e. ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 44. 



Gyninops meizolepis, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 124. 



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



OpMops schlueteri, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 176, pi. iii, 

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

 i. 1905, p. 141. 



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

 1888, p. 505, and (9) ii, 1918, p. 161. 



Opliiops elegans, vars. ehrenbergii, persicus, mizolepis, Bouleng. t.c. 

 1918, pp. 159, 160. 



As this species varies considerably in the lepidosis accordiug to 

 districts, the following description is taken, for precision's sake, from one 

 of the types 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, the number of scales and plates round the body 

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

 to the Paris Museum by Menetries. 



