68 
SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
The following dimensions were marked by Dr. Stoliczka on one of the labels, and 
doubtless taken on the fresh animal : — 
Length of head and body 
Do. of tail .... 
Do. of head from snout to occiput 
Do. do. do. to eye 
Do. of ear from front base . 
Greatest width of ditto 
Fore-foot 
Hind-foot 
Inches. 
17-5 1 
4 2 
4-2 
2-2 
5 
2-75 
2-6 
5'3 
hca 11 
The skins measure about 18 inches from nose to rump, tail with hair 4, ears from 
between the ears 4' 5, from orifice 3'6, tarsus to end of claws 4'8 to 5. 
The following are the dimensions of a skull (PL Va, fig. 1) : — 
Metre. 
Length of skull from occiput to front of incisors . . . *089 
Greatest breadth across zygomatic arches ..... ‘041 
Width between orbits . . '026 
Length of nasal hones '038 
Breadth of do. behind "018 
Do. do. in front .....•• '013 
From the base of the hinder upper incisor to foremost molar . - 026 
Length of the six molars taken together ..... '016 
Do. of palate behind palatal opening .... ’007 
Breadth of do. between 3rd pair of molars . . . '012 
Length of lower jaw from angle to symphysis .... '059 
The skull very much resembles that of L. tibetanus ; the nasal hones have the sa . 
form, hut the skull is larger in all its dimensions ; the posterior portion of the frontal 
is more convex, and the breadth of the cranium behind the postorbital processes greater, 
external colouration and fur are very different and are nearer to those of L. yarka 
Inches. 
3-5 
1-6 
1-03 
1-51 
0'75 
0- 5 
1- 05 
0-65 
0-25 
U'46 
2- 31 
t 
L. p'lmwensis is distinguished from that species by the black upper portion of the tail, '0^^. 
grey rump, and by the admixture of longer piles, black at the end, on the back. The 
species is also larger, though still inferior in size to L. tolai, from which it is disting ul * ^ 
moreover, by its longer ears. Dr. Gunther especially notices the “extraordinarily ^ eQ T eI1 s0' 
comparatively long and stiff fur” on the front part of the ears in this species, and the 
ness of the short, stiff fur on the back 
L. pamirensis is very possibly peculiar to the high Pamir plateau, 
blance to L. biddnlpM, the Gil git species. 
It has some 
45. Leptjs stoliczkanus. PI. V, fig. 2 ; PL Va, fig. 2. 
W. Blanf., J. A. S. B., 1875, xliv, Pt. 2, p. 110. 
■ or 0 S ’ 
L. prcecedenti peraffinis, arenario-fulvus, differt tantum auriculis multo lonff 1 
vellere dorsali nigro lavato. Long, corii desiccati a rostro ad basin caudce 17 
1 The number on the label appears to be 11*5, but this is palpably not intended. 
- Probably the hair at the end is included. 
