232 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



feet are seal-brown to blackish above, the former with a very slight admixture 

 of ochraceous hairs. 



Ventrally the colors are richer and darker than in consobrinus, the dark of 

 the sides encroaching nearly to the mid line of the venter and on the inside 

 of the limbs. Chest and mid ventral area washed conspicuously with tawny- 

 ochraceous; the bases of the hairs slaty. Median area of the throat pure white. 



The basal fifth of the tail is colored above like the back; the rest is nearly 

 clear tawny with a black border and an outer fringe of white. The ventral 

 surface is similar but the tawny median area is partly obscured by long black 

 hairs tipped with white. 



Measurements: The type was measured in the flesh by the collector as 

 follows: total length, 363 mm.; tail, 148; hind foot, 54. 



Remarks: This very well-marked race will probably prove to be confined 

 to the Washan Mountains, whose peculiar conditions and isolation seem to have 

 induced the differentiation of a number of local races or species. Unfortunately 

 the skull of the type was lost, and no other specimens were obtained. It appears, 

 however, to be sufficiently well characterized for recognition, and I have named 

 it in honor of Col. John E. Thayer through whose generosity the collection was 

 made possible. 



TAMIOPS MACCLELLANDI swiNHOEi (Milne Edwards). 



A single specimen of this prettily striped species was collected at Tachiao, 

 western Szechwan, September 20, 1908, at an altitude of 12,000 feet. 



Milne Edwards based his description on specimens from the " principaute 1 

 de Moupin." Our specimen is thus practically from the same locality, and since 

 I have found no good description of the species I append the following particulars. 



Forehead and crown a grizzled gallstone-yellow and black; nape, shoulders, 

 flanks, and upper side of limbs olive becoming lighter on the sides and passing 

 into raw umber on the rump. Five black stripes on the back, the median dorsal 

 beginning on the nape, becoming broadest in the middle region of the back, then 

 narrowing to the base of the tail. A shorter but equally broad black stripe 

 on each side from shoulders to rump, the intermediate space clay color. A broad 

 clear stripe of pale ochraceous succeeds this black stripe laterally, on either side 

 and is bordered by a short and ill-defined blackish line; inner surface of the 

 ears pale ochraceous, outer surface bordered by black and provided with an 

 erect fringe of long white hairs. A buff line runs from the muzzle, below the 

 eye to the posterior base of the ear, and there is a narrow eye-ring of the same 



