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Show 1875.] DR. A. GUNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. 225 volume on Iudian reptiles similar to his works on the Mammals Birds of India. To obtain a collection of Himalayan reptiles, with which he was least familiar, he undertook a journey into the Himalayas and Khassya. He collected a considerable number of specimens, which he brought with him to England and presented to the Trustees of the British Museum. The work of systematically arranging and naming this collection was carried on jointly by him and myself, and had proceeded as far as the genus Tropidonotus, when it was interrupted by the illness from which he never recovered. Being able to trust to his wonderful memory, he had not always taken the precaution of labelling the specimens with the locality where heobtainedthem; and I am therefore ignorant of the habitat of a part of the specimens which were still unexamined at the time of his death. CABRITA BRUNNEA, Blanford, Journ. As. Soc. 1870. p. 335. Seven specimens from various localities, collected by Mr. Blanford and Col. Beddome, do not seem to me to differ from C. lesche-naultii. OPHIOPS. To this genus I refer :- 1. OPHIOPS JERDONII (Blyth) = Cabrita jerdonii (Bedd., Blanf.) =Pseudophiops theobaldi (Jerd. P. A. S. B. 1870, p. 71)= Ophiops bivittatus (Bedd.). 2. OPHIOPS BEDDOMII (Jerd. P. A. S. B. 1870, p. 71) = Ophiops monticola (Bedd. Madr. Journ. Med. Sc. 1870). MOCOA TRAVANCORICA (Bedd.) is represented by a series of specimens of different ages in Col. Beddome's collection ; it is scarcely distinguishable from M. bilineata (Gray). RISTELLA RURKII (Gray). Specimens found by Col. Beddome in the Toracada valley (alt. 4000-5000 ft.) agree so well with the few notes by which this species has been characterized, that I am inclined to refer them to it. It is very distinct from B. travancorica (Bedd.). EUPREPES BEDDOMII, Jerd. P. A. S. B. 1870, p. 73. is not specifically distinct from Tiliqua rufescens. EUPREPES (TILIQUA) BREVIS. Eyelid scaly; a pair of supranasal shields ; the praefrontal is broadly in contact with the rostral and vertical. The fifth upper labial is below the orbit and much longer than high. Opening of the ear of moderate width, without tubercles in front. Scales with three, and in adult specimens with five strong keels, in 29 longitudinal and 25 transverse series (the latter counted from the axil of the fore leg to the vent). Praeanal and subcaudal scales not enlarged. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1875, No. XV. 15 |