Ophiops. 211 



As mentioned in Vol. I, p. 339, I cannot help thinking Bosca's 

 Algiroideg hidalgoi, said to be from San Ildefonso, Sierra de Guadar- 

 rama, Central Spain, will prove to be identical with this species. 



4. OPHIOPS ELEGANS. 



OpMops elegans, Menetr. Cat. Eais. p. 63 (1882); Eichw. Eeise 

 Kasp. Meer. i, pt. 2, p. 744 (1837) ; Duni. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. v, p. 259, 

 pi. liii, fig. 1 (1839) ; Eichw. Faun. Casp.-Cauc. p. 78, pi. xii, figs. 1-5 

 (1841) ; Berth. Abh. Ges. Getting, i, 1840, p. 56, pi. i, figs. 4, 5 ; 

 Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 44 (1845) ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 374; 

 Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 372 (1875) ; Blanf . Zool. E. Persia, p. 367 

 (1876); Boettg. Bar. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 174, and in Eadde, 

 Faun. Flor. Casp.-Geb. p. 48 (1886) ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 75 

 (1887) ; Boettg. Sitzb. Ak. Berl. 1888, p. 165 ; Bouleng. Faun. Ind., 

 Eept. p. 175 (1890), and Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii, 1899, p. 378 

 Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xix, 1903, p. 334; Nikolsky, Herp. Eoss 

 p. 141 (1905); Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxvii, 1909, p. 609 

 Schreib. Herp. Eur., Ed. 2, p. 350 (1912) ; Nikolsky, Herp. Caucas 

 p. 92 (1913) ; Barbour, Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club, v, 1914, p. 85 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. IST. H. (9) ii, 1918, p. 158. 



Amystes ehrenhergii, Wiegm. Arch. f. Nat. 1835, ii, p. 1. 



? Algira punctata, Gray, Ann. N. H. i, 1838, p. 283. 



Ophiops macrodactylus, Berth. I.e. ; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 44. 



Gymnops tneizolepis, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 124. 



Ophiops meizolepis, Blanf. op. cit. p. 369, pl. xxv, fig. 2. 



Ophiops sehlueteri, Boettg. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 176, pl. iii, 

 fig. 3 ; Bouleng. Cat. t.c. p. 77 ; Annandale, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. (2) 

 i, 1905, p. 141. 



Ophiops elegans, var. sehlueteri, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) ii, 

 1888, p. 505, and (9) ii, 1918, p. 161. 



Ophiops elegans, vars. ehrenhergii, persicus, misolepis, Bouleng. t.c. 

 1918, pp. 159, 160. 



As this species varies considerably in the lepidosis according to 

 districts, the following description is taken, for precision's sake, from one 

 of the types and from specimens from Central Asia Minor (Angora, 

 Kaisarieh, Albistan, Giaour Dagh), of which I have examined a large 

 series, and which represent the typical form in the restricted sense.* 

 Notes on the specimens from other parts of the extensive range of this 



* Ophiops elegans was founded on specimens from Eastern Transcaucasia, in 

 which, according to Boettger, the number of scales and plates round the body 

 varies between 34 and 40. I have examined one of the types, from Baku, sent 

 to the Paris Museum by Menetrifes. 



