OpMops. 



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Measurements (in millimetres) : 



Sabitat. — Hills of Western India : Brumagherry Hills in Wynaad, 

 about 1500 m., South Canara, and Khandala, near Bombay. 



This species is very near the preceding, but more advanced in the 

 disintegration of the shields on the upper surface of the snout and 

 less in the shape of the frontal shield. 



3. OPHIOPS OCCIDENTALIS. 



OpMops elegans (nou Menetr.), Boettg. in Eobelt, Reis. Alg. Tunis, 

 p. 467 (1886). 



OpMops occidentalis, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 75, pi. iii, fig. 2 (1887), 

 and Tr. Zool. Soc. xiii, 1891, p. 134 ; Werner, Verb. Zool.-bot. G-es. 

 Wien, xliv, 1894, p. 82 ; Doumergue, Erp. Orau. p. 204, pi. xv, fi.g. 3 

 (1901) ; Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxvii, 1909, p. 609. 



? Algiroides Mdalgoi, Bosca, Bol. Soc. Esp. H. N. xvi, 1916, p. 294. 



Body moderately depressed. Head feebly depressed, If to 1^ times 

 as long as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the anterior 



