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Inhabits the Brahmagiri hills in the Wynaad at 5000 feet 

 and more sparingly the plains of South Kanara near Sulyay. 



The synonyms quoted above apply either to individual 

 varieties or local races. 0. Theobaldi Jerdon has a linear shield 

 intercalated between the posterior frontals, and is from the hiUs 

 bordering the Punjab. 0. Beddomei J. which is identical with 

 monticola Bed. is a form possessing two anterior frontals 

 in place of the usual single one, and has been taken at 

 the Bremnagherry hiUs by Beddome, and at Khandala by 

 Stoliczka, who, after reviewing many specimens, is inclined to 

 unite the above forms, with some reservation however as regards 

 the last (vide Stoliczka, J. A. S., 1872, Part II, p. 89). 



O. microlepis, W. Bl. J. A. S., 1870, p. 351, pi. XV, f. 1—5. 



Gymnops, W. Bl. J. A. S., 1870, p. 351. 



Chondrophiops, W. Bl. J. A. S., B., Part II, 1873, p. 144. 



Nostril between two inflated nasal shields, with a third behind 

 just separated from it. 



Upper labials eight, the fifth enlarged and below the orbit j chin 

 shields six pairs, the two first meeting. Scales of back strongly 

 keeled, very small, smaller than, (and not oblique as) in Cab. 

 LeschenaultH, fifty in each transverse row; of the belly 

 rhomboidal in sik longitudinal rows, whereof the outer are 

 Bmaller than the rest. Two large prseanals one before the other. 

 Femoral pores fourteen on each side. Tail rather more than 

 two-thirds of total length. Colour on head and middle of back 

 gray, with dusky marks on sides, especially near a narrow 

 white bounding line running from superciliary ridge to tail, where 

 it is lost in a broader pale reddish band. A second less distinct 

 white line runs from below the eye above the shoulder, fading 

 behind. Below this on the sides a few green spots are seen 

 during life. Beneath white. Total length is little over seven 

 inches. 



Inhabits Korba in Bilaspur, Central Provinces — Blanford; 

 Western Bengal — Stoliczka. 



