258 Mr. 0. Thomas on 



Mr. Carruthers spent the winter of 1907-8 at Samarkand 

 and Bokhara^ making- collections in the three zones accessible 

 from there — the desert, fertile, and mountain regions of 

 Turkestan. Then in the summer he made an excursion up 

 to the Hissar Mountains, on the south side of the Zarafshaa 

 Valley, 100 miles east of Samarkand, and afterwards to the 

 Ak-sai Plateau, N. of Kashgar. 



Although the region is fairly well known to Russian 

 naturalists, the British Museum has hiiherto been very 

 badly off for mammals from Turkestan ; and this series is 

 therefore of much im})ortance to us for comparison with our 

 growing collections of Persian and N. Indian animals. 



120 specimens are enumerated, belonging to 23 species, of 

 which four have needed descri})tion as new, besides three 

 others from adjacent parts of Central Asia, already in the 

 Museum Collection. 



1. Nyctalus noctula, Schr. 

 (J. 76, 77, 78, 79; ? . 74, 75. Samarkand. 2000'. 



2. PipistreUus pipistrellus lacteus^ Teram. 



(J. 2, 3, 25; $.1. Samarkand. 2000'. 



In describing- his Pqjistrellus hactrianus'^ Dr. Satunin 

 lias not shown any reason why Dobson's definite identifica- 

 tion f of Temminck's lucteus with the pale-coloured E. Tur- 

 kestan Pipistrelle should be ignored. Without evidence that 

 the identification is wrong, the name should be used. 



Moreover, Severtzoff' s Vesperugo akokumuli, Temm., var. 

 almate?isis |, dating from 187(3, would also appear to be the 

 same form. 



3. Erinaceus macr acanthus , Blanf. 

 ? . 24. Hills south of Samarkand.' 3000'. 



4. Crocidura sp. 



(?. 11,12,22; ?. 19,21. Hills south of Samarkand. 

 3000'. 



<J. 81; $.100. Samarkand. 2000'. 

 Allied to or identical with C. ilensis, Mill. 



* Mitth. Kaukas. Mus. ii. p. 85 (1905). 



t Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 225 (1878). 



X Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xviii. p. 42 (1876). 



