Small Marnmah from Central China, 39 7 



may possibly be 1.2.0.4, as in the Urotrichus-Uropsilug 

 series of genera ; but. I am quite confident about tlie lower 

 incisors, wliicii are 1.2.0, as in Desmana and the American 

 moles, as compared with 0.2.3 or 0.2.0 in Urotrichus, 

 Uropsilus, and tiieir allies. 



The most salient points of the dentition are: (1) the total 

 number of 9 above and below, elsewhere only found in 

 JS^eiirotrichus, and (2) the Desmana-like character of the 

 lower incisors, which are subequal, strongly proclivous, the 

 second equally with tlie first abutting upon and being worn 

 down by the hinder surface of the lai-ge anterior upper 

 incisors. 



/' largCj about as large proportionally as in Scalops and 

 Ui'otri'ckiis, therefore larger than in iScapanus, but very far 

 from as large or as specialized as in Desmana and Galemys. 

 i^ and /)' suhequal, small, the canine between them rather 

 larger, double-rooted. P^ of about the same length and 

 twice the bulk of the canine ; p^ about four times the bulk of 

 p^, with a well-marked internal cusp. Molars with their 

 internal ledge subtrilobate, about as in Scapanus. 



Type. Scapanulus oweni, sp. n. 



Dividing, as I should, the family Talpidie into five sub- 

 families — the DesmanuKe, Talpince, Scalopince, Condylurince, 

 and UropsUince — this most interesting new genus falls 

 obviously into the Scalopince, within which it belongs rather 

 to the Scalopine than the Urotrichine series of genera. But 

 with its rather less modified manus and pterygoids and com- 

 paratively delicate skull it adds another to the links which 

 bind these two series of genera to each other. From Scaptonyx, 

 the only allied genus geographically near it, it is at once 

 separable by its more modified manus, fewer teeth, much 

 larger i^, and its Desmau-like lower incisors. 



Scapanulus oweni, sp. n. 



Bulk about half that of Talpa europcea. Colour of body 

 exactly as in that animal, the lower surface almost imper- 

 ceptibly lighter than the upper. Head ratlier paler. Hands 

 pale brown above, with whitish edges. Feet brown proxi- 

 mally, white on the digits. Tail long, thick, well-haired, 

 grey-brown with rather lighter tip. 



Skull and teeth as described above. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 108 mm.-; tail 38 ; hind foot 14. 



Skull : greatest length 28'2 ; condylo-basal length 27'5 ; 



