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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 sma > 
lower labials ten. Rostral nearly twice the breadth of two labials; mental also l' u A’ 
square behind. Some enlarged scales along the edges of the lower labials. Scales of t e 
body all round large, smooth, imbricate, and rounded behind, those of the abdomen scarce y 
larger than those of the back ; I count about thirty -two round the body, but they are a fit - 
irregular ; scales on the limbs similar to those of the body, except behind the upper arm and ting > 
where, as well as on the side of the trunk behind the shoulder, they are small and granular- 
Eeet and toes covered with imbricate scales above, and with minute spinose tubercles belo" > 
all tbe toes provided with claws and fringed at the sides. Tail covered with smooth inibn 
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 w i 
breadth of the tail. Region around the anus, before and behind, granular; two large P ore ~) 
one on each side, behind, none in front. Length 5T inches, tail 2T, forelimb 1'-’ 1171 
limb 1*6. 
Colour grey above, with a few small blackish spots on the back, most strongly ^ g 
between the shoulders. According to Strauch, the pupil is circular, and young specim ^ 
are transversely banded, but Dr. Scully, who has seen a living specimen, assures me that ^ 
pupil is vertical, and this is borne out by the specimens I have examined. Comparing 
specimen with Teratolepis fasciata, 1 the type of which, originally described by Blytln 18 ^ 
the Indian Museum, I find that the differences pointed out by me in the “ Zoology 
Persia 2 ” from the descriptions, hold good, and the two forms must be placed in distinct g ene ^ 
T. fasciata has the basal portion of the toes dilated, and furnished with a double r°" 
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. Scu ^ 
who has ascertained that it is not very common, and that (according to the information g 1 ^ 
by the people) it inhabits waste ground, and is found about stones. The colouration o 
back, when alive, is greenish, lower parts whitish, limbs pinkish fleshy. 
8. Gymnodactylus stoliczeje. 
Steindachner : Reptilien, Novara Expedition, p. 15, PI. ii, fig. 2. 
Cyrtodactyliis 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 : 
valley, Ladak. 
the 
I have compared the specimens obtained by Dr. Stoliczka with the type 
son’s Cyrtodactylus yarlcandensis. They agree perfectly. Gymnodactylus 
of Dr. Ander- 
stoliczka vva " 
1 Gunther : Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869, p. 504; — Homonota fasciata, Blyth: Jour, As. Soc. Bengal, xxii, P- 
2 Eastern Persia, ii, p. 355. 
