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smaller shields. Five pair of chin shields, the fourth largest. 

 Ear spacious, margined above in front with a long narrow shield. 



Scales above, granular in about 45 rows in the middle of the 

 body, on the upper side of the limbs slightly keeled, on the tail, 

 enlarged, verticUlate, and sharply keeled. Shields of the belly 

 enlarged, trapezoid in 8 rows. 



Femoral pores 12-15 on each thigh separated in the prseanal 

 region. The lower eyelid granular with some enlarged flat 

 shields in the centre. Shoulder fold well-developed. Colour 

 brownish olive, with four alternating rows of white spots, with 

 some blackish ones down the back, and one or two rows down 

 the sides tending to form bands. A dark stripe behind the thigh 

 and dark marks on the tail. Below greenish white. 



Grows to 6*50 inches (tail 2-10). 



Inhabits Synd. 



My friend, W. T. Blanford, suggests the identity of this species 

 and M. pardalis Idcht, and it may be so, but pardalis is 

 described as having " two transparent plates" on the lower eyelid, 

 a character I cannot think Stoliczka would have overlooked when 

 describing the " enlarged flat shields " of this species. 



Ophiops, Menetries. 

 Nostril on the muzzle ridge between two or three swollen 

 nasals, or more rarely in a single partly divided plate : two 

 or three postnasals. Eyelids none. Collar none, only a small 

 fold in front of shoulder. Scales of back keeled, imbricate, of 

 belly smooth. Femoral pores. Tympanum distinct. 



O.Jerdoni, Blyth. J. A. S., XXII, p. 653. 



Pseudophiops Theobaldi, Jerdon. P. A. S., B., Feb. 1870, p. 71 . 

 Scales of back in twenty-four to twenty-eight rows, all save 

 the outer row sharply keeled. On the belly, six rows of enlarged 

 smooth scales. {lead shields plicated, rather variable. One 

 anterior, two posterior frontals. Loreals two, the second large and 

 separated from the eye by some small scales. Superciliaries 

 large, two on either side. Eight upper and seven lower labials. 

 Femoral pores ten on each thigh ; pores pierced in the posterior 



