12 i Stoliczka — On new Beptilia, etc. [July, 



VI. — Notes on some new species oe Eeptilia and Amphibia, collected 



BT De. W. Waagen in Nobth-Westeen Panjab, — 



hy De. F. Stoliczka. 



Dr. Waagen has handed over to me a most interesting set of Reptiha 

 and Amphibia, which he collected on his recent geological torn- in the 

 Saltrange of the Panjab, on the Indus about Kalabagh, in the Agror valley, 

 and at Marri. Out of twenty species, I find four undescribed, three lizards 

 and one frog. The former are all of extreme interest ; two are secon( 

 known species of each of the genera Gymnops and Blepharosteres, botW 

 peculiar to Western andCentral India, and the third is a Stellio of which I 

 gave a review in the first number of the Journal for the current year. 



The collections of Reptiles recently made in North- Western India 

 appear to reveal a much greater richness of forms, than might have been 

 expected from the aridity of the climate of these regions. 



Laceetilia. 



1. Acanthodacttlus Cantoeis. {Vide ante p. 85, and J. A. S. B., 

 XLI, Pt. ii, p. 91). Saltrange, and along the Indus about Kalabagh. 



2. Ophiops Jeedoni. {Vide ante p. 74 and J. A. S. B., XLI, Pt. ii, 

 p. 89). Saltrange, apparently common ; also near Attock. 



3. Gymnops meizolepis, n. sp. 

 Form and proportion of the body quite similar to those of G. mien 



pis,* but the scales are larger and fewer in number. 



One anterior and two posterior frontals, both depressed along the 

 middle of the snout ; vertical broad in front and obtuse, gradually nar- 

 rowing posteriorly ; two large supra- orbit als, separated by a sub-triangu- 

 lar small shield from the post-frontals, and by a narrow shield from the 

 outer hinder occipitals, these latter are separated from each other by a 

 narrow median occipital, followed by a small shield, and are much larger than 

 the anterior occipitals, each of which is triangular. Nostrils moderately 

 swollen, between an upper and lower shield, the former in contact behind the 

 rostral, and a third smaller post-nasal, which is again followed on the canthus 

 rostralis by a small shield, appearing to be a detached portion of either the 

 anterior loreal or the anterior frontal. A ring of small shields round the 

 eye, as if there were a rudiment of an eyelid on the front and hind angle, 

 exactly as in G. microlepis. 



* When speaking of the scales of this species at p. 91 of J. A. S. B,, XLI, pt. II, 

 the sentence was unfortunately made to read, as if all the scales of the body were 

 smooth ; this is a mistake. Only the scales on the foreneck are sometimes almost 

 granular and smooth, but all others are always distinctly keeled, though of very 

 small size. 



