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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
9. Gymnodactyltjs elongattjs. PI. II, fig. 2. 
W. Blan. ; Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, 1875, xliv, Pt. 2, p. 193. 
G. elongatus , corpore gracili, cauda altennata, membris exilibm, dorso tuber cu Us ^ mc ^ ^ 
bus latis confertis ornato, inter tuberculas squamis rotimdis parvulis induto, cauda 
scutis majoribus instructd, verticillatd , serie ultima verticilli cujusque ex squamis maj _ 
carinatis superne et ad latera omnino compositd, poris prce-analibus ad 5 ; griseus, ti a 
fusco-fasciatus. Long. poll. 5, caudce 2'8. 
1-5, Yangihissar, Eastern Turkestan. 
Description. — General form more elongate than is usual amongst geckoes, head dep 1 2 3 ’®^^ 
sloping gradually down to the snout, body rather slender, tail very thin, regularly a 0 .^g 
very little, if at all, swollen at the base, exceeding the head and body in leng • _ 
slender, elongate, the fore limb laid forward extends to the end of the snout, al j^ roU gbt 
it reaches more than three-quarters of the distance to the thigh ; the hind Iba 
forward comes some distance in front of the shoulder. Toes elongate, rounde , a g-8, 
very small claws. Pupil vertical. Length of a perfect specimen 5 inches, head 0 oo, 
fore limb to end of toes 1, hind limb 13. _ 
Surface of the head granular, granules nearly uniform, and about equal m siz e 
scales of the abdomen ; nostrils between the rostral, first labial and two small slue asS ing 
which are slightly swollen. Upper labials about twelve, the hinder very small, an^ ^jee 
into granules ; lower labials nine or ten. Rostral rather higher than the other labial* ^ breadth 
as broad, with the upper portion of the anterior surface grooved. Mental the Sill '|° (n , all ular, 
as the rostral, and pointed behind ; two or three pairs of enlarged chin-shields. Rac » ^ ce • 
with numerous broad triangular keeled tubercles, each nearly as large as the small ^ ^ . the 
they are not arranged in regular rows, hut about twelve may be counted across the ^ er . 
granular scales between the tubercles much smaller than the head granules. There ^he 
cles on the forearm, thigh and tarsus. I count about twenty- five larger scales a _ g terio r 
abdomen. Tail verticillate, covered with trapezoidal or subtrapezoidal keeled scales, 1 ^ exe are 
row of each ring larger, hut without any granules or small scales between, so tna ^ ] ar ge 
no distinct tubercles. Lower surface of the tail, except near the base, with a l0 "y_ s } ia ped 
plates about as broad as long, two to each verticil. Prseanal pores about six iu a 
Colour in spirits pale grey, with darker transverse hands on the body, linvUs, and ^ 
This species belongs to the same group as G. caspius, 1 G. scaber; G. has n° 
kachhensis * G. brevipes , 5 &c., but is much more slender in form than any of theflV^ ea ch 
tubercles, with smaller scales intervening, on the tail, all the scales of the last r° 
verticil being enlarged and submucronate. 
Only one of the specimens obtained is in good condition. 
1 Eiehwald : Fauna Casp. Cauc., p. 114, PI. xv, figs. 1, 2. 
2 Rupp. Atlas : Kept., p. 15, PI. iv, fig. 2. 
3 Steindaehner : Sitzungsber. K. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien., lxii, Pt. 1, p. 329, PI. h 
4 Stoliczka : Proc. As. Soe. Bengal, 1872, p. 80. 
4 W. Blanf., Eastern Persia, ii, p. 344, PI. xxii, fig. 2. 
