306 Mr. 0. Thomas on 



black dorsal lines, these lines being probably absent at the 

 opposite season. General tones of colonr similar throii<;ht>iif , 

 but thii under surface wliite instead i)£ pale bufly. Subucular 

 stripe also wiiite, scarcely more buffy anteriorly ; in ntonti- 

 coIhs it is pale buffy behind, strongly buti'y in front. Tips 

 (if tail-hairs whiter and less butVy, also rather longer, making 

 the tail more bushy. 



Median black line running from the nape to the base of 

 the tail. Lateral light stripes strong and prominent, bully 

 whitish. 



SiuiU as in monticolus. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on skin) : — 



Head and body 127 mm. ; tail (c.) 100; hind foot 30. 



Skull : condylo-incisive length 315 ; zygomatic brea<lth 

 21'5 ; nasals 10"5 ; inteLorbit;>l breadth 12'5; breadth of 

 brain-case 17'6 ; palatilar length 14; uj)per tooth-row ex- 

 clusive of p^ 6 ; molars only '4*3. 



Hah. Yunnan. Tvpe from the Lichiang Range, at 

 27° 20' N. All. 11,000'. 



Type. Old male. H.M. no. 20. 1. 16. •!. Original num- 

 ber 1. Collected July 1918 by Mr. Ooorge Forrest. Pre- 

 sented by Col. Stephenson R. CliU'ke. Two specimens. 



From any of tlie forms of "J^amups found further west this 

 Taiiiiops is distinguished by the complete interruption between 

 the subocular and light lateral dorsal lines, this interruption 

 being a characteristic of the Chinese members of the genus. 



2\iiniops incojistans, sp. n. 



A small species with dull ujiper surface and bright yellow 

 belly. 



yize among the smallest of the genus. General colour 

 greyish olivaceous, the markings less conspicuous than in 

 iiny species known to mo. Fore-back and the strij) internal 

 to tlu: lateral liglit lines, wiit-re the subdorsal dark lines 

 usually are, practically concolor, pale greyish olivaceous, the 

 niedian dark line broad but little djukcr tlian the general 

 dorsal colour, and niarj^ined on each side with inconspicuous 

 bully bands. Outer light bands the oidy ones which are 

 really distinct, and these only .short and narrow, not reaching 

 the subocular lines; buffy whitish. Crown rather more buffy 

 tlian back. Orbital rings and sidxjcular stripe strong buify. 

 Hairs of ear as usual black, but those of the chief tuft on the 

 back of the ear are not only white at tiji, but white to their 

 bases. 



Under sinl'aee, in maiked contrast to the inconspicuously 



