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Other differences are the much smaller scales, the more numer- 

 ous chin shields, the proportionally longer limbs and much longer 

 tail, and the more numerous femoral pores. In 0. Jerdoni, the length 

 from the nose to the anus is 1.65 inch, of the tail from the anus 

 2.4. In 0. microlepis, as before, the head and body measure 2.1, 

 tail 5.1 inches. 



Of the two new species of Pseudophiops, described by Dr. J e r- 

 d o n, only a few characters have been given, but these shew other 

 differences from 0. microlepis, besides those of the nasal plates, 

 which are similar, it may be presumed, to those of 0. Jerdoni. In 

 Pseudophiops Theobaldi there is a shield intercalated between the 

 posterior frontals, and the proportions of body to tail are 5 to 7. 

 P. Beddomei has two anterior frontals, and the head still shorter 

 and more triangular than in Jerdoni, The reverse of the latter is- 

 the case in the present species. 



7. Euprepes innotatus, sp. nov. PL xvi, Fig. 9. 



E. parvus, figurd eoloreque E. macularii similis, dorso olivacco, 1a- 

 teribus purpurascenti-brunneis, ventre flavo, fvel albo?), linea albescenti 

 utrinque superciliari postice et antice produdd, alia inferiori breviori 

 ah aure ad humerum decurrente ; palpehrd inferiori media translucente, 

 lineis impressis haud not at a ; squamis in 32 seriebus longitudinalibus, 

 dorsalibus quinque carinatis. 



I am indebted to Dr. Anderson for calling my attention to 

 this species, which I had overlooked amongst several specimens of 

 E. macular ius, B 1 y th. I have unfortunately but a single example, 

 it differs, however, so much from the two Indian Euprepes, with 

 transparent lower eyelids, previously described, viz., E. trilineatus } 

 Gray and E. Beddomei, J e r d o n, that I see no resource but to 

 consider it new. 



Lesc. A pair of small supranasal shields ; the single pra)frontal 

 touches the rostral, but is just separated from the vertical by the 

 post-frontals.* Opening of the ear not very small, with two or three 

 minute denticles in front. Lower eyelid with a transparent disk. 

 Scales in 32 longitudinal series and in 32 transverse rows between 

 the axils : dorsal scales with 5 (here and there with 4 or even - 3) 



* This is not a character of much importance, and I find it varies much, in 

 other species, in different individuals. 



