114 BibliograpTiica I Notice. 



instead of being bowed backwards ; the supraorbital rims are 

 more developed (though still small for so large an animal), 

 and are continued along the parietals to the outer corners of 

 the intermaxillary. Anterior edge of anteorbital plate more 

 slanting. Posterior nares wider and more open than in the 

 allied form. Incisors broad, pale yellowish, finely but irregu- 

 larly striated in front. 



Dimensions of the type (an adult female in skin) : 



Head and body (probably stretched) 310 millim. ; tail 290 ; 

 hind foot (moistened) 60 *. 



Skull: basal length 51'3 ; greatest breadth 27'4; nasals 

 23 x 5'6 ; interorbital breadth 8*2; breadth of brain-case 21 '3 ; 

 interparietal 7 X 16'2 ; palate length from henselion 26 ; 

 diastema 17; anterior palatine foramina 10*6x4; length of 

 upper molar series 9'1. 



Hal. Kuatun, N.W. Fokien. 



Type : B.M. no. 97.6.6.2. 



This fine rat is evidently very closely allied to Mus 

 Bowersi, which is a native of Burma and Tenasserim, and is 

 therefore widely distinct from it geographically. It differs, 

 however, by its rather larger size, especially its longer hind 

 feet, and by the various cranial differences above enumerated. 



It is named in honour of Mr. J. de La Touche, of Foochow, 

 to whom, in conjunction with Mr. B/ickett, the British 

 Museum is indebted for a considerable number of valuable 

 Chinese mammals. Among these may be specially mentioned 

 examples of the rare Typhlomys cinereuSj M.-Edw., specimens 

 which have enabled me for the first time to show the proper 

 position of this interesting genus f- 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Ueber die Palpen der Rhopaloceren. . Ein Beitrag zur ErTcenntnis 

 der Verwandschaftliclien Bezieliungen unter den Tagfdltern. Yon 

 ENZIO REUTER. (Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, torn. xxii. 

 No. 1.) (Helsingfors, 1896.) 



THE early writers on insects used to complain that the Order 

 Lepidoptera was one of the most difficult of all to classify, on account 

 of the deficiency of characters. But with the increase of our know- 



* The two other specimens have hind feet 57'5 and 58 millim. long. 

 Three spirit-specimens of M. Bowersi in the Fea collection have feet 

 respectively 51, 61, and 52 millim. in length. 



t P. Z. S. 1896, p. 1016. 



