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Filchner expedition. In addition to N. viverrinus and N. albus from the Japan- 

 ese islands, he recognizes N. procyonides of Gray from east central China (of which 

 he makes N. sinensis Brass, 1904, "Nutzbare Tiere Ostasiens," a synonym) and 

 describes as new N. ussuriensis and N. amurensis from Siberia, and N. stegmanni 

 from the Yangtze basin. The last is said to differ from N. viverrinus in having 

 the bases of the woolly hairs on the back blackish gray instead of reddish gray, 

 the shoulders ticked with whitish gray on a dark ground instead of being blackish 

 brown, while the sides of the body are not much darker than the clear band back 

 of the shoulder. In size, the Yangtze animal is superior, being 82 cm. instead 

 of 70 cm. in total length. 



The skin of a single female, without skull, obtained by Mr. Zappey in 

 December, 1908, at Suifu, western Szcchwan, agrees well enough with Matschie's 

 description of N. stegmanni. The dried skin measures about 82 cm. in total 

 length. The general color is pale buff, clear on the sides of the neck, behind 

 the shoulders, and on the lower surfaces of the body and tail, but elsewhere is 

 mixed with black particularly on the mid-dorsal area and on the terminal half 

 of the tail above. The lower limbs and patch below the eye are dark chocolate 

 and the chin and throat are tinged with the same. No doubt further material 

 will show intergradation between these described species. 



MUSTELIDAE. 

 LUTREOLA MOUPINEKSIS Milne Edwards. 



A male and a female from Tachiao (12,000 feet) and a second female from 

 Washan (9,000 feet), western Szechwan, are in the collection, the two former 

 in summer pelage, the latter in winter. The two summer skins were taken on 

 the 17th and 20th of September respectively and are essentially similar in colora- 

 tion, a nearly uniform Vandyke-brown above, darkest on the forehead and muzzle 

 shading into pale cinnamon on the ventral surfaces. The extreme tip of the 

 tail is a seal-brown or blackish with one or two white hairs. The female in 

 freshly assumed winter pelage, October 28, 1908, is cinnamon above, slightly 

 darker along the median line, shading into a clear buff below. These specimens 

 measured by the collector are as follows: 



