12. opHrops, oe 6 
x2. N.E. slope of Mount Dr. Anderson [C.]. 
Hermon. 
ye ds Banias, S. slope of Dr. Anderson [C.]. 
Mount Hermon. 
2 9. Sebastiyeh, Samaria, Dr, Anderson [C.]. 
a, Q,. Baalbeck. Dr. Anderson [ou 
B-y. 29 &hgr. Galilee. Canon Tristram [0.]. 
6... Foot of Mount Tabor, Dr. Anderson [P.]. 
Galilee. 
en. Q. Jerusalem. Dr. Anderson ee 
é-. Hgr. Basrah, Mesopotamia. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 
= 3,9,& Persia. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 
gr. 
nm. Q. Kuh-i-hazar, 8.E. of W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 
Karman. 
p. Q. Karman. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 
o. 3. Niriz, E. of Shiraz. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 
t-v. 9. Between Karman and W.T. Blanford, Esq. [C.}. 
Shiraz. 
gp. 9. North of Isfahan. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 
5. Ophiops schlueteri. 
Ophiops schlueteri, part., Boetiger, Ber. Senckend. Ges. 1879-1880, 
p. 176, pl. iii. fig. 3. 
Very closely allied to O. elegans, of which it should perhaps rather 
be regarded as a variety than as a distinct species. The following 
are the differences :—NScales smaller, dorsals a little smaller than 
laterals, not one-fourth the size of caudals; 42 to 46 scales round 
the middle of the body. Femoral pores 12 to 14. The gular fold 
and the collar are distinguishable. 
Cyprus. ; 
a-b. § O. Cyprus. Lord Lilford [P.]. 
c-d. Her. Cyprus. 
6. Ophiops microlepis. 
Ophiops (Gymnops) microlepis, Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 
1870, p. 351, pl. xv. figs. 1-5. 
Gymnops microlepis, Stolezka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 90, 
and Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 74. 
Head much depressed; snout long; loreal region concave; upper 
labials projecting, angular. Upper head-shields smooth; nostril 
latero-superior, pierced between an upper.and a lower nasal; a 
small postnasal wedged in between the two nasals; these three 
shields more or less distinctly swollen; frontonasal single; pra- 
frontals obtusely keeled ; frontal much narrowed posteriorly, grooved 
longitudinally ; four supraoculars, first and fourth smallest, the two 
principal separated from the supraciliaries by a series of granules ; 
occipital small, broader than the interparietal, with which it is 
usually in contact; subocular bordering the lip, between the fourth 
and fifth upper labials; temporal scales small, obtusely keeled ; two 
