12 
SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 
Habit stout, bead 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 small, 
lower labials ten. Hostral nearly twice the breadth of two labials; mental also large, 
square behind. Some enlarged scales along the edges of the lower labials. Scales of the 
body all round large, smooth, imbricate, and rounded behind, those of the abdomen scarcely 
larger than those of the back; I count about thhty-two round the body, but they are a little 
irregular; scales on the limbs similar to those of the body, except behind the upper arm and tliigh, 
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 below; 
all the toes provided with claws and fringed at the sides. Tail covered with smooth imbri¬ 
cate scales, those below, and near the base above, similar to those of the body; the posterior 
two-thuds of the tail covered above with large imbricate scutes, seventeen in number, the whole 
breadth of the tail. Hegion around the anus, before and behind, granular; two large pores, 
one on each side, behind, none in front. Length 5T inches, tail 2T, forelimb I‘2, hind 
limb I'6. 
Colour grey above, with a few small blackish s^^ots on the back, most strongly marked 
between the shoulders. According to Strauch, the pupil is circular, and young specimens 
are transversely banded, but Dr. Scully, who has seen a living specimen, assures me that the 
pupil is vertical, and this is borne out by the specimens I have examined. Comparing this 
specimen with Teratolepis fasciata,^ the type of which, originally described by Blyth, is in 
the Indian Museum, I find that the differences pointed out by me in the “ Zoology of 
Persia ^ ” from the descriptions, hold good, and the two forms must be placed in distinct genera. 
T. fasciata has the basal portion of the toes dilated, and furnished with a double row of 
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. Scully, 
who has ascertained that it is not very common, and that (according to the information given 
by the people) it inhabits waste ground, and is found about stones. The colouration of the 
back, when alive, is greenish, lower parts wliitish, limbs pinkish fleshy. 
8. Gymxodactylijs stoliczk^. 
Steindaeliner: fieptilien, Novara Expedition, p. 15, PL ii, fig. 2. 
Qyriodactylm yarhandensis, Anderson: Proe. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 381, fig, 3 (figura mala). 
1-5, Chiliscomo; 6-13, Kargil; 14, 15, Klarfiu; 16, Lamayaru; 17, Saemo; 18-46, Leh;—all in the Indus 
valley, Ladak. 
I have compared the specimens obtained by Dr. Stoliczka with the type of Dr. Ander¬ 
son’s Cyrtodactylus yarkandensis. They agree perfectly. Oymnodo^ctykis stoliczkce was 
1 Giinther: Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869, p. m^-—Romonotafasciata, Blyth: Jour, As, Soc. Bengal, ssii, p. 468. 
^ Eastern Persia, ii, p. 355, 
