16. opHiomorus. 3895 
a-b. Ad. Nasirabab, Seistan. Gen. Goldsmid [P.]. 
e. Ad, Candahar. Col. Swinhoe 4 ; 
d, Ad. Helmand. Dr. Aitchison Lot Afghan 
: Boundary Comm. 
e-f. Ad. Punjab. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 
g-k. Ad. Punjab. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. | a 
2. Ophiomorus blanfordii. (Piare XX XIII. fig. 1.) 
Zygnidopsis brevipes (non Blanf. 1874), Blanf. Journ. As, Soc. Beng. 
xlviii. 1879, p. 128. fee e 
Snout wedge-shaped, with angularly projecting labial edge. 
Nostril close to the rostral; supranasals forming a long suture ; 
two loreals, first largest and in contact with the third and fourth 
upper labials ; frontonasal moderate, not half as long as the frontal ; 
prefrontals longer than broad, widely separated; frontal slightly 
longer than broad ; four supracculars, first and second in contact - 
with the prefrontal ; two supraciliaries, behind the first supraocular ; 
frontoparietals much smaller than preefrontals ; interparietal as long 
as broad, a little shorter than the frontal; parietals narrow, band- 
like; no nuchals ; first and second labials in contact with the nasal, 
fifth largest, fifth and sixth below the eye. Ear hidden. Two 
azygos postmentals. Body much elongate, with angular latero- 
ventral edge, with two pairs of short limbs, the anterior tetradactyle, 
the posterior tridactyle ; the hind limb proportionally more developed 
than the anterior, a little longer than the distance between the fore 
limb and the anterior corner of the eye, and contained thrice and 
two thirds in the distance from the fore limb. 20 scales round the 
body, subequal. Two enlarged preanals. Tail alittle shorter than 
‘head and body, ending in a point. Cream-coloured, each dorsal 
scale with a central brown dot, which form two lines on the middle 
of the back and a dark band on each side, beginning from the nostril 
and passing through the eye; the two vertebral lines unite into a 
streak on the middle of the head. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 150 Fore limb ........ 8 
Head yi ceee teas 10 Hind limb........ 15 
_ Width of head .... 6 Tail, ccsoiwsea en 72 
Body gaccgne ce tees 68 
Persia or Baluchistan ? 
a, Ad. —P W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 
3. Ophiomorus brevipes. 
-Zygnopsis brevipes, Blanf. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. 1874, p. 33, 
UPd Fool. E. Persia, p. 897, pl. xxvii. fig. 4, : 
 Snout conical, rounded, the rostral projecting beyond the lip. 
Nostril nearly equally distant from the rostral and the anterior 
loreal (?); two loreals ; frontonasal moderate, about half as long as 
