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SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 
9. GyMNODACTYLTJS ELONaATUS. PI. II, fig. 2. 
W. Blan.j Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, 1875, xliv, Pt. 3, p. 198. 
G. elongatus, cor^ore gracili, ccmda attenuata, memhris exilihus, dorso tuhercuUs majors 
bus latis Gonfertis ornato^ inter tuherculas squamis rotundis parvulis induto, caudd suhtm 
sGutis magoribus instructd, 'Derticillatd, serie ultima 'oertiGilli cujusque ex squamis majoribus 
carinatis superne et ad later a omnino eompositd, poris prce-analibus ad 5 ; griseus, transverse 
fusGO-fasciatus. Long. poll. 5, oaudce 2’8. 
1-5, Yangihissar, Eastern Turkestan. 
JDesGription. —General form more elongate than is nsnal amongst geckoes, head depressed, 
sloping gradually down to tlie snont, Body rather slender, tail yery thin, regularly attenuate, 
very little, if at all, swollen at the base, exceeding the head and body in length. Limbs 
slender, elongate, the fore limb laid forward extends to the end of the snout, laid back 
it reaches more than three-quarters of the distance to the thigh; the hind hmb brought 
forward comes some distance in front of the shoulder. Toes elongate, rounded, aU with 
very small claws. Pupil vertical. Length of a perfect specimen 5 inches, head 0-65, tail 2*8, 
fore limb to end of toes 1, hind limb I’3. 
Surface of the head granular, granules nearly uniform, and about equal in size to the 
scales of the abdomen; nostrils between the rostral, first labial and two small shields behind, 
which are slightly swollen. Upper labials about twelve, the hinder very small, and passing 
into granules ; lower labials nine or ten. Eostral rather higher than the other labials and twice 
as broad, with the upper portion of the anterior surface grooved. Mental the same breadth 
as the rostral, and pointed behind; two or three pairs of enlarged chin-shields. Back granular, 
with numerous broad triangular keeled tubercles, each nearly as large as the small ear-orifice; 
they are not arranged in regular rows, but about twelve may be counted across the back; the 
granular scales between the tubercles much smaller than the head granules. There are tuber¬ 
cles on the forearm, thigh and tarsus. I count about twenty-five larger scales across the 
abdomen. Tail verticillate, covered with trapezoidal or subtrapezoidal keeled scales, the posterior 
row of each ring larger, but without any granules or small scales between, so that there are 
no distinct tubercles. Lower smTace of the tail, except near the base, with a row of large 
plates about as broad as long, two to each verticil. Prseanal pores about six iu a Y-shaped 
line. 
Colour iu spirits pale grey, with darker transverse bands on the body, limbs, and tail. 
This species belongs to the same group as G. oaspius^ G. soaber^ G. hotsoJiyi^ G. 
IcaGMensis,^ G. brevipes^^ &c., but is much more slender in form than any of them, and has no 
tubercles, with smaller scales intervening, on the tail, all the scales of the last row in each 
verticil being enlarged and submucronate. 
Only one of the specimens obtained is in good condition. 
^ Eickwald: Fauna Casp. Cane., p. 114, PI. xv, figs. 1, 2. 
^ Rupp. Atlas; Eept., p. 15, PL iv, fig. 2. 
® Steindackner: Sitzungsker. K. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien., Ixii, Pt. 1, p. 329, PI. i, fig. 1. 
Stoliezka: Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 80. 
® W. Blanf., Eastern Persia, ii, p. 344, PI. xxii, fig. 2. 
