ART. 1 MAMMALS FROM CHINA — HOWELL 71 



OCHOTONA (PIKA) CANSA MOROSA Thomas 



Ochotoha cansa morosa Thomas. Arm. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 10, 1912, 

 p. 403 (Taipeishan, Shensi, China). 



Specimens. — Four skulls from the type locality. 



The skins to the above skulls can not at present be located but I 

 have no hesitation in their identification for they are very similar 

 indeed to cansa tjipiciis and from the type locality of morosa. Two 

 of the skulls are larger than the measurements given by Thomas. 



Family LEPORIDAE 

 Genus CAPROLAGUS Blyth 



CAPROLAGUS SINENSIS SINENSIS (Gray) 



Lepus sinensis Gray. Hardwicke's lUust. Indian Zool., vol. 2, 1833-34, pi. 20 

 (Canton, Kwangtung, China). 



Specimens. — Seven from Kiangsu : Shanghai, 6, and Chinkiang. 1. 



The Shanghai skins are very uniform but the one from Chinkiang 

 is a bit darker and lacks any suggestion of gray upon the cheeks and 

 about the base of the ears. I follow G. M. Allen (1927) in the ge- 

 neric disposition of this species. 



CAPROLAGUS SINENSIS FLAVIVENTRIS G. M. Allen 



Caprolngus sinensis flaviventris G. M. Allen, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 284, 1927, 

 p. 5 (Chuniranhsien, Fukien, China). 



Specimens. — Three from Yo.how, Hunan. 



These skins have the underparts a bit more ochraceous and buffy 

 than those from Shanghai, but the difference is very slight. 



Genus LEPUS Linnaeus 



LEPUS TOLAI TOLAI Pallas 



Lepus tolai Pallas, Nov. Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord., 1778, p. 17 ^Gribi Desert, 

 Mongolia). 



Specimens. — Twelve : Mongolia, 100 miles north of Kalgan, Chihli, 

 1; Paotowchen and 93 and 107 miles west-northwest thereof. Inner 

 Mongolia, 6; Sianfu, Shensi, 1; and 85 miles north of Lanchow, 2, 

 and west of Sining, Kansu, 2. 



The skins from north of Kalgan seem perfectly typical of the race 

 foJai. Although unexpected. I have no choice but to include the 

 Sianfu individual under this name. The material from Inner Mon- 

 golia is in very ragged, dirty, late winter peiage, paler and less yel- 

 low than summer skins. The specimens fTom Kansu are in even 

 worse oendition as to pelage. The validity of the races gohicus and 

 gansiiiciis Satunin remains to be established but it is doubted that 

 the}^ will prove distinct. 



