1870.] Reptilia and Amphibia from Central India. 353 



Tail rather more than twice the length of the head and body, 

 measured from the nose to the anus. 



The dimensions of the specimen obtained are : 



in. 



Whole length, 7,2 



Length of head from end of nose to hinder margin 



of postoccipitals, 0.55 



,, from end of nose to ear, 0.55 



Breadth of head at superciliary ridge, 0.25 



Length of head and body from nose to anus, .... 2.1 



do. of tail from anus, 5.1 



do. of fore leg and foot to point of finger, . . . , 0.9 



do. of longest finger, 0.3 



do. of hind leg and foot, 1.5 



do. of longest toe, c . . . . . 0.55 



In colour, the head above and the middle of the back are grey, 

 marked towards the sides with dusky brown, especially on the 

 margin of two narrow white lines, one running backwards from 

 the hinder part of each superciliary ridge to the insertion of the tail, 

 where it becomes lost in a broader pale reddish band. These bands 

 a little way down the tail unite above and all the upper part of the 

 tail becomes reddish. The sides of the head, body and tail are 

 spotted with dusky, the spots on the head and body being fewer 

 below, and another white line less well marked than the upper one 

 runs from below the eye just above the shoulder, becoming much 

 less distinct behind ; below this, in life, there are on the sides a 

 few green spots mixed with dusky specks which fade in spirit. 

 Lower parts white. 



Loc. But a solitary specimen of this curious Lizard was found 

 at Korba in Bilaspur, the eastern part of the Chhatisgarh divi- 

 sion, Central Provinces. 



Ophiops microlepis may be distinguished from 0. Jerdoni by the 

 differences in the nasal plates, by the head shields being flat and 

 not ribbed, by the post-frontals having no intermediate shield, by 

 the smaller occipitals, and by the narrow shields between the post- 

 occipitals, whereas in O. Jerdoni, the intermediate plate is half the 

 breadth of a post-occipital. 



