12 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Habit stout, head and body depressed, limbs strong, toes rather short, tail shorter than 

 the body. The hind limb reaches to the shoulder, the fore limb not quite to the end of the 

 snout. Head covered with small granules above and below. Pupil vertical. Nostrils between 

 the rostral, first labial and three enlarged plates behind ; upper labials eleven, the hinder small, 

 lower labials ten. Rostral nearly twice the breadth of two labials; mental also large, 

 square behind. Some enlarged scales along the edges of the lower labials. Scales of the 

 body all round large, smooth, imbricate, and rounded behind, those of the abdomen scarcely 

 larger than those of the back ; I count about thirty- two round the body, but they are a little 

 irregular ; scales on the limbs similar to those of the body, except behind the upper arm and thigh, 

 where, as well as on the side of the trunk behind the shoulder, they are small and granular. 

 Feet and toes covered with imbricate scales above, and with minute spinose tubercles below ; 

 all the toes provided with claws and fringed at the sides. Tail covered with smooth imbri- 

 cate scales, those below, and near the base above, similar to those of the body ; the posterior 

 two-thirds of the tail covered above with large imbricate scutes, seventeen in number, the whole 

 breadth of the tail. Region around the anus, before and behind, granular ; two large pores, 

 one on each side, behind, none in front. Length 5'1 inches, tail 2'1, forelimb T2, hind 

 limb 1-6. 



Colour grey above, with a few small blackish spots on the back, most strongly marked 

 between the shoulders. According to Strauch, the pupil is circular, and young specimens 

 are transversely banded, but Dr. Scully, who has seen a living specimen, assures me that the 

 pupil is vertical, and this is borne out by the specimens I have examined. Comparing this 

 specimen with Teratolepis fasciata, 1 the type of which, originally described by Blyth, is in 

 the Indian Museum, I find that the differences pointed out by me in the " Zoology of 

 Persia 8 " from the descriptions, hold good, and the two forms must be placed in distinct genera. 

 T. fasciata has the basal portion of the toes dilated, and furnished with a double row of 

 enlarged plates, but the toes are not fringed at the sides, and there is no external ear. 



Another specimen of Teratoscincus has since been brought from Yarkand by Dr. Scully, 

 who has ascertained that it is not very common, and that (according to the information given 

 by the people) it inhabits waste ground, and is found about stones. The colouration of the 

 back, when alive, is greenish, lower parts whitish, limbs pinkish fleshy. 



8. GYMNODACTYLTJS STOLICZKJE. 



Steindachner : Reptilien, Novara Expedition, p. 15, PI. ii, fig. 2. 



tyrlodactylus yarkandensis, Anderson: Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 381, fig. 3 (figura mala). 



1-5, Chiliscomo ; 6-13, Kargil ; 14, 15, Kharbu ; 16, Lamayuru ; 17, Snemo ; 18-46, Leh : all in the Indus 

 valley, Ladak. 



I have compared the specimens obtained by Dr. Stoliczka with the type of Dr. Ander- 

 son's Cyrtodactylus yarkandensis. They agree perfectly. Gymnodactylus stoliczkce was 



1 Giinther : Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869, p. 504 ; Romonota fasciata, Blyth : Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, xxii, p. 468. 

 ~ Eastern Persia, ii, p. 355. 



