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0. meizolepsis, Stol. Proc. As. Soc, 1872, p. 124. 

 Gymnops meizolepis, Stol. 



Form and proportions of the body quite similar to meizolepis, 

 but the scales are larger and fewer. 



Nostril moderately swollen between an upper and lower 

 shield (the former in contact behind the rostral) and a third 

 small postnasal followed by a small shield like a detached portion 

 of the anterior loreal or prsefrontal. A ring of small shields 

 round the eye; 8 upper labials, the fifth under the eye and 

 much narrowed at the lower edge. The eighth is in contact 

 with an upper large and a lower small shield on the front edge of 

 the spacious ear. Scales of sides and back keeled in 28 longi- 

 tudinal and 45 transverse rows on the body between the fore 

 and hind limbs. 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 margins. A white 

 band from below the eye through the ear, and above the sides to 

 the groin, with dark spots or markings below it. 



Grows to 470 inches (tail 1-50). 



Inhabits the country south-west of Kalabagh. 



Family ZoNUEiD.a;. 



Head covered with symmetrical shields. Tongue flat, nicked; 

 scales of back and tail large, squarish, sides with a distinct 

 longitudinal fold. Scales of the belly squarish or roundish, in 

 cross bands. Tail rounded. Ears distinct. Eyes diurnal, with lids. 



PSEUDOPTJS, Merrem. 



Body and tail long, snake-like. Limbless, or with only a pair 

 of rudimentary hind legs. Scales quadrangular, arranged in 

 transverse rows. 



P. gracilis, Gray. 

 Ophiseps tessalatus, Blyth. 

 Body and tail of nearly uniform bulk throughout, with vent 

 placed in the middle. Dorsal scales slightly keeled, in fourteen 



