On Small Mammals from Central China. 31^5 



6. Copeina argyrops. 



Pyrrhulina argyrops, Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. xvii. 1878, p. 694. 

 Copeina argyrops, Fowler, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1906, p. 295, fig. 2. 



Very similar to C. guttata in form, coloration, &c., but 

 witii the dorsal fin a little further forward, originating above 

 base of pelvics. 



R, Maranon, Peruvian Amazon. 



4. POGONOCHARAX. 

 Pogonocharax, Regan, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xix. 1907, p. 261. 



Differs from Pyrrhulina in the toothless mouth and the 

 presence of two pairs of barbels, prremaxillary and maxillary. 



1. Pogonocharax rehi. 

 Regan, /, c. fig. 



Dorsal 8, above the anal. Anal 8. 25 scales in a longi- 

 tudinal series. Maxillary barbel f as long as the fish. 

 Argentina. 



1. 45 mm. (type). Argentina. Reh. 



LT. — On a Collection of Small Mammals from the Tsin-ling 

 Mountains ,CentralChina, iiresented by Mr.G. Fenwick Owen 

 to the JSational Museum. By Oldfield ThomaS. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



During the late summer of 1911 Mr. G. Fenwick Owen, to 

 whom the National Museum already owed some valuable 

 collections of mammals from French Gambia, made an 

 exploring and collecting expedition into Central China, into 

 Southern Shen-si and Kan-su, with the intention of exploring 

 the mountain-ranges between those provinces and Eastern 

 Tibet. Owing, however, to the breaking out of the recent 

 revolution in China, Mr. Owen's party had to shorten their 

 work and to come home through Tibet and Russia in Asia, 

 by which route they were fortunately enabled to transport in 

 safety such collections as they had made before the revolution 

 broke out. 



The small mammals, which Mr. Fenwick Owen has now 

 presented to the British Museum, were all prepared by his 



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