90 F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. [No. 1, 
nearly or exactly reaches the nostril, and the hind limb extends to somewhat 
beyond the axil, rarely as far as the ear. Some of the largest specimens 
measure very nearly 5 inches, the body being 1} inch. 
The coloration also is variable ; it is usually bronze brown, sometimes with 
an olive and often a greenish metallic tint. Tho four white bands, two along the 
edge of the back and two at the sides, aro generally well marked ; however, in 
some specimens the dorso-lateral bands are very indistinct. Again, there are as 
a rule two series of black dots, separated by reddish brown ones, on the back 
along each white band, and similar black spots, almost forming irregular bare, 
are at the sides between the white bands, and also below the lateral band. In 
two specimens all these black spots are remarkably small, and in one of a dis- 
tinct greenish brown coloration they are nearly absent, but the white bands are 
well marked. This specimen is one of the two which I noticed as possessing a 
pair of anterior frontals, and very closely corresponds with Ophiops Beddomei, 
Jordon* (= monticola apud Beddome, Mad. Jour. Med. Sc. for 1870). 
I collected near Kandala, on the Western Ghats, a specimen which 
agrees in every point with Boddome’s description of monticola. It has the 
uniform greenish brown coloration with the dorso-lateral white stripes very 
indistinct, but the lateral ones well defined ; there is a pair of anterior frontals 
present, and the femoral pores are more widely separated in tho preanal re- 
gion, than in any of the specimens of true 0. Jerdoni which I examined. 
Considering tho variations which I have noticed in undoubtedly identical 
specimens of O. Jerdoni , I cannot but doubt that O. Beddomei (== monticola ) 
will prove a really good species. However, more specimens must yet be ex- 
amined, in order to settle this point. 
Graxors micbolepis, Blanf. 
B1 an ford, Jour. Asiat. Soc. B., 1870, xxxix, p. 351, pi. xv, figs. 1 — 5. 
A few specimens of this species, which was described from a single spe- 
cimen from the Central Provinces, were collected by me at the coal mines of 
Kurhurbali, W. Bengal.t One specimen has 5, tho other 6, pairs of chin- 
shields, the last pair in each case followed by a smaller shield. In other 
respects of structure of shields and scales, proportions of body and coloration 
tho specimens perfectly agree with Blanford’s description, except that the 
number of scales in one transverse row between the G longitudinal enlarged 
rows on the belly, and counted across the back, is generally 56-64 instead of 
about 50 ; hut this is evidently a character which may be expected to vary with 
the size of the lizard. There is a good deal of variation in the number and dis- 
tinctness of the dark spots accompanying the white bands ; in some specimens 
the former nearly become obsolete. The tail is reddish in young specimens, 
* Jerdon, in Proc. Asiat. Soo., Feb. 1870, p. 73, 
t 1 found it sinco abundant in Katch, 
