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Hissar, Sirsa, and extending, though more sparingly, to the foot 

 of the Alpine Punjab.* I got it at Bheirber in the bed of 

 the river there, and within a very few miles of the head quarters 

 of another true Lizard, eogeneric with Ophiops Jerdoni, Blyth. 

 Theobald, on examining the hitherto unique specimen of this 

 curious reptile, found that the nostrils were not as in Ophiops 

 between two nasals followed by 3 small post-nasals, but in one 

 nasal followed by two post-nasals, and he accordingly placed it 

 under the genus Tropidosaura. But this last group has dis- 

 tinct eyelids, being a sub-genus of Lacerta, whilst Ophiops Jerdoni 

 and this new species want them entirely. As the presence or 

 otherwise of eyelids is, I consider, a more important character than 

 the position of the nasals, I shall (in conformity with a suggestion 

 of Dr. Stoliczka, who has been good enough to examine these 

 specimens and other doubtful species of mine) call them Pseud- 

 ophiops, and the new species found by me in the Alpine Punjab I 

 shall call Pseudophiops Theobaldi. It is very common on the ascent 

 of the first range of hills beyond Bheirber, in rocks and bare ground ; 

 and I found one specimen on the banks of the river close to where 

 I got Acanthodactylus Cantoris, both frequenting the boulders in 

 the dry bed of the river. It closely resembles P. Jerdoni, but differs 

 in its more elongate and depressed head ; the posterior frontals 

 are separated by a small intercalated linear scale ; the 3rd chin- 

 ehield forms a suture with its fellow, whilst in Jerdoni it is separat- 

 ed by small scales ; and there are several other points of difference 

 which will be noted more particularly in the " Reptiles of India." 

 The colour is brown above, with a narrow pale yellowish line on 

 each side from the eyebrow, lost on the tail ; and another wider 

 from below the eye through the ear to the thigh ; between these 

 stripes is a series of irregular black spots, which are slightly continued 

 both above the upper and below the lower line ; lower parts pearly 

 white ; tail pale brown with a reddish tinge, most distinct in 

 young specimens. Length of one 3 inches, the tail being If. 



Major Beddome has recently found Ps. Jerdoni on the banks of 

 the Toombuddra, and another place in Southern India. My first type 

 specimen, now in the Museum, was got by me at Mhow in Central 

 * The young are very beautifully striped longitudinally. 



