;i9G Mr. 0. Tliomas on 



companion and interpreter, Dr. J. A. C. Smitli, wlio had 

 already accompanied Mr. Malcolm Anderson into this region, 

 and had also made collections on his own account, so that 

 both country and fauna were well known to him. 



The collection consists of 68 specimens, belonging to 18 

 species, of which 7 are new, thus again showing the ricliness 

 and diversity of the fauna of this wonderful region. 



Of tliese by far the most striking is the new mole, Scapan- 

 ulus oweni, representing a new genus more allied to the 

 American moles than to any previously known in Asia. 

 Other valuable accessions are the Zapus^ the Sicista, and the 

 new sinews of the new genera Blarinella and Chodsigoa. 



Mr. Fenwick Owen and Dr. Smith are to be congratulated 

 on tlie amount of novelties yielded by the collection, which 

 forms a most valuable supplement to the series obtained by 

 Mr. Anderson during the Duke of Bedford's Exploration of 

 Eastern Asia. 



1. ScopcmuJus oweni, gen. et sp. n. 



S. 59. 46milesS.E.ofTao-cliou,Kan-su. Alt. 10,000'. 

 (J. 72. 23 miles S.E. of Tao-chou. 9000'. 

 *' In mossy undergrowth in fir-forest." — J, A. C. S. 



kSCAPANULUS, gen. nov. {Ta^pi'dce, subfam. Scalojn'nce). 



Manus broadly expanded, nearly as much so as in the true 

 moles, more so than in Scaptonyx. Claws rather slender for 

 a mole ; those of hind foot thin, rather straight, except that 

 of the hallux, which is curved. On both sides in both speci- 

 mens the hallux is peculiarly twisted away from tlie other 

 digits, but this may possibly be due to distortion in drying. 

 Tail comparatively long and thickly haired. Skull about as 

 in UrotncJius, the pterygoid region less inflated and witli 

 better developed pterygoids than in Scapanus. Tympanies 

 incomplete. Interparietal broad, less tapering forwards than 

 in Urotrichus. 



Teeth ^x 2 = 36, these being apparently 



I. I C. ;, PM. I M. I 



As to the individual homologies of the teeth, I w^ould 

 tentatively suggest the following as the complete formula of 

 the permanent dentition : — 



-■ ■ 1 . 2 . o> ^ • 1) -•- -^'-•' 1 . . y . 4' ^^' 1.2. .s 



In this the premolar formula is not very certain, since it 



