74 Stoliczha, on Kaclih Beptiles. [Mat, 



LACERTIDiE. 



3. Gtmnops miceolepis, Blf. 



Comp. Journ. A. S. B., vol. xli, 1872, p. 90. 



An extremely common species throughout Kachh, frequenting sandy and 

 moderately rocky ground between low brushwood. The largest specimen 

 measures 8 inches. I have examined hundreds of specimens, and never no- 

 ticed any essential variations in structure or colour from the typical form, 

 described by Blanford. 



4. Ophiops Jeedoisti, Blyth. 



Not common, but generally distributed throughout Kachh. I have noted 

 the variations of this species in another paper (Journ. A. S. B. vol. xli, 1872 

 p. 89). The form which inhabits Kachh is, like the one from the Panjab, 

 generally smaller, and is also a little more slender,* than that found on the 

 continent of India, North of Agra, but there is not the least difference in 

 structure and coloration of the two. Some specimens have only 5 or 6 

 femoral pores on either side of the thigh, and they are rather widely separated 

 in the preanal region, but this is evidently a character variable with age and 

 sex. The largest specimen measures 4 inches, the body being nearly 1-25 

 inches. 



SCEN^CIDJE. 



Blephaeosteees, n. gen. 



Body slender, covered with smooth scales ; head-shields as regular as in 

 JKocoa ; nostril in a single shield, lateral ; without a trace of an eyelid and 

 without external ear ; no teeth on the palate and the palatal notch situated 

 behind the level of the eye ; feet short, each with five toes, denticulate below ; 

 claws small. 



This genus belongs to the Gymnopthalmous division of the Seine family, 

 but differs from most of them by the total absence of an external ear. It 

 may, in short, be characterised as a Mocoa toithout eyelids and ears. 



5. Blephaeosteees Geatantjs, n. sp. 



Body slender, shorter than the tail, moderately depressed. Snout 

 obtuse ; rostral reaches the top of head and is broader than high ; anterior 

 frontal single, hexagonal, broadly in contact with the rostral, but narrowly 

 with the vertical ; posterior frontals separated, each a little smaller than the 

 anterior frontal, and in contact with a small shield on the upper anterior 

 angle of the eye ; vertical elongate, subquadrangular, the posterior sides the 

 longer ones ; three superciliary shields, followed by two small ones, obliquely 

 descending on the temporal region ; anterior occipital single, pentagonal, 

 pointed in front, and behind forming a suture with the small suboval median 



* The number of scales round the body beiag, therefore, generally only 26 to 28, 

 rarely 30. 



