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The second species occurs ia Mongolia and is called B. moschatua, 

 while the third S. gilUesi was recently described as new 

 from a specimen from South Shansi. Previous to this I had 

 secured a specimen in Tai-yuan Fu, and another on the 

 Ordos Border. Subsequently I secured several specimens from 

 Western Shansi. It seems to have adapted itself to an existence under 

 more or less desert conditions, in which there certainly cannot be any 

 abundance of worms. It must therefore live upon beetle larvae or some 

 such food. The fourth species belongs to a new genus, discovered on 

 the Fenwick-Owen expedition in South-Westem Kansu. This is 

 Scapanulus oweni, a rather small 'mole, resembling none of the other 

 species found in China. In Manchuria, Corea, Japan and Central and 

 Western China moles of many genera and species are very plentiful. 



