14 SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 



9. GYMNODACTYLTJS ELONGATUS. PI. II, fig. 2. 

 W. Blan.j Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, 1875, xliv, Pt. 2, p. 193. 



G. elongatus, corpore gracili, cauda attenuata, membris exilibus, dorso tuberculis majori- 

 bus latis confertis ornato, inter tuberculas squamis rottmdis parvulis induto, caudd subfm 

 scutis majoribus instructd, verticillatd, serle ultima verticilli cujusque ex squamis majoribit* 

 carinatis superne et ad latera omnino compositd, ports prce-analibus ad 5 ; griseus, transverse 

 fusco-fasciatus. Long. poll. 5, caiidcs 2^8. 



1-5, Yangihissar, Eastern Turkestan. 



Description. General form more elongate than is usual amongst geckoes, head depressed, 

 sloping gradually down to the snout, hody rather slender, tail very thin, regularly attenuate, 

 very little, if at all, swollen at the base, exceeding the head and body in length. Limbs 

 slender, elongate, the fore limb laid forward extends to the end of the snout, laid back 

 it reaches more than three-quarters of the distance to the thigh ; the hind limb brought 

 forward comes some distance in front of the shoulder. Toes elongate, rounded, all with 

 very small claws. Pupil vertical. Length of a perfect specimen 5 inches, head O65, tail 2'8, 

 fore limb to end of toes 1, hind limb 1'3. 



Surface of the head granular, granules nearly uniform, and about equal in size to the 

 scales of the abdomen ; nostrils between the rostral, first labial and two small shields behind, 

 which are slightly swollen. Upper labials about twelve,- the hinder very small, and passing 

 into granules ; lower labials nine or ten. Rostral rather higher than the other labials and twice 

 as broad, with the upper portion of the anterior surface grooved. Mental the same -breadth 

 as the rostral, and pointed behind ; two or three pairs of enlarged chin-shields. Back granular, 

 with numerous broad triangular keeled tubercles, each nearly as large as the small ear-orifice ; 

 they are not arranged in regular rows, but about twelve may be counted across the back ; the 

 granular scales between the tubercles much smaller than the head granules. There are tuber- 

 cles on the forearm, thigh and tarsus. I count about twenty-five larger scales across the 

 abdomen. Tail verticillate, covered with trapezoidal or subtrapezoidal keeled scales, the posterior 

 row of each ring larger, but without any granules or small scales between, so that there arc 

 no distinct tubercles. Lower surface of the tail, except near the base, with a row of large 

 plates about as broad as long, two to each verticil. Prasanal pores about six in a V-shaped 

 line. 



Colour in spirits pale grey, with darker transverse bands on the body, limbs, and tail. 



This species belongs to the same group as G. caspius, 1 G. scaber, 2 G. kotschyi, 3 G . 

 kachhensis,* G. brevipes, 6 &c., but is much more slender in form than any of them, and has no 

 tubercles, with smaller scales intervening, on the tail, all the scales of the last row in each 

 verticil being enlarged and submucronate. 



Only one of the specimens obtained is in good condition. 



1 Eichwald : Fauna Gasp. Cauo., p. 114, PL xv, figs. 1, 2. 



2 Kupp. Atlas : Kept., p. 15, PL iv, fig. 2. 



3 Steindachner : Sitzungsber. K. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien., kii, Pt. 1, p. 329, PI. i, fig. 1. 



4 Stoliczka: Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 80. 



6 W. Blanf., Eastern Persia, ii, p. 344, PI. xxii, fig. 2. 



