SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 
OP 
THE SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
EEPTILIA. 
By W. T. BLANBOED. 
T he collection of reptiles made by Hr. Stoliczka during liis travels with the second 
expedition to Eastern Turkestan was small, owing partly to the country traversed not 
being rich in forms of animal life, but still more because of the unfavourable season at which 
many of his journeys were made. The Thian Shan was visited in the depth of winter, and the 
Pamir steppes and Wakhan long before the snow had melted, and, under these circumstances, 
no snakes, lizards, or other forms of reptihan life could be found. The bulk of the collection 
consists of specimens procured on the journey from India to Kashghar, in the Punjab hills 
beyond Mari (Murree), in Kashmir and in Eadak, and those obtained on the return journey 
between Yarkand and the Karakoram. Of several of the species, fine series have been 
obtained. 
The only reptiles previously collected in the districts traversed beyond Kashmir were (1) 
those procured by the Messrs, von Schlagintweit, who, in 1857, obtained one species of lizard, 
which was described by Hr. Gunther in the Eeptiles of British India; (2) by Hr. Stoliczka 
himself, who, when in Ladak in 1865, collected several reptiles, of which Hr. E. Steindachner 
gave an account, together with the Eeptiles of the Novara Expedition; and (3) a few 
specimens obtained by the first expedition to Yarkand in 1870, which were examined and 
described by Hr. Anderson in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1872. The 
last was the only collection winch included specimens from Turkestan, but, unfortunately, the 
localities had apparently, in some cases, not been correctly marked on the labels. It is well 
known that there is much confusion in the localities of the specimens collected by the 
Messrs, von Schlagintweit. Nearly the whole of Hr. Stoliczka’s collections are carefully 
labelled, and in the very few cases in which, from the labels having been omitted or lost, 
there is doubt as to the original locality of a specimen, this is noted in the subsequent pages 
in the list of the specimens collected. 
The following is a list of the species of Eeptiles hitherto procured from Ladak and the 
Upper Indus valley:— 
Laceetilia : 
Stellio liimalayamis. Gymnodactylus stoUczha. 
Fhrynocephalus theobaldi. Mocoa stoliczha (? =M, ladacensisj. 
Oehidia : 
Zamenis ventrhmeulatus {Z. ladacensis, Anderson). 
