1872.] Stoliczka — On new Beptilia, etc. 125 



Eight upper labials, the fifth under the orbit and much narrowed at the 

 lower edge, the eighth is in immediate contact with the upper large and a lower 

 small shield on the front edge of the spacious ear. Seven or eight narrow 

 lower labials, also extending to the ear. Six pairs of enlarged chin-shields, 

 the three first in contact. All scales above and at the sides keeled ; those 

 on the foreneck almost granular, and merely obtusely pointed ; on the body 

 of moderate size, arranged in tolerably distinct transverse rows ; those on 

 the tail become still larger, sharper keeled, and are verticiliate. There are 

 twenty-eight longitudinal rows of scales across the back between the six 

 rows of enlarged smooth ventral scales, and forty-five lateral transverse 

 rows between the fore and hind limb. The shoulder-fold is continued on the 

 breast, indicated by a row of three much enlarged shields. Twelve femoral 

 pores on either side, separated in the middle by one shield. Preanal shield 

 moderately enlarged, with a slightly smaller one above it. Sub-caudals not 

 enlarged. All the scales on the upper side of the fore limb are enlarged, 

 on the hind limb only those in front are large, the remainder being very 

 much smaller than those on the upper side of the body ; the same diiference 

 in the size of the scales also exist in G. inicrolejjis, but it is less 

 prominent. 



Fingers and toes very slender and sharply keeled below. The fore- 

 limb when laid forward extends a little beyond the snout, and the hind limb 

 nearly to the hinder angle of the eye. 



Colour olive green, above, with whitish dorsal edges, accompanied by a 

 series of smaller blackish spots on the inner, and considerably larger ones on 

 the outer sides ; a white band from below the eye through the ear and along 

 the middle of the sides to the groin, also with dark spots or marblings 

 below_ it ; lower side greenish albescent. 



Log. Low country S. W. of Kalabagh on the Indus. The solitary 

 specimen measures 4*7 inches, of which head and body are 1*5 inch. 



Although this species much nearer approaches an Ophiojps, than does 

 G. microlepis, the scales are still considerably smaller when compared with 

 those of the small sized O])liio])s. The presence of a single postnasal seems 

 to be more persistent than might have been expected, 



4. Eeemias Watsonanus. Vide ante, p. 86. 



Specimens perfectly identical with those from Sind also occur near 

 Kalabagh on the Indus. Some of the young specimens have a greater num- 

 ber of white spots on the body than others, and the eyelids, lips below the 

 eye and the entire sides of neck and belly are tinged with orange. The 

 head is, as in young Acantliodactyli, comparatively short and high ; the nos- 

 trils are sometimes almost tubular, and the hinder occipitals occasionally 

 from a suture behind a small triangular median occipital, 



