Apodemus, Evotomys, a7id Lepus, 449 



" pinkisli-buffy " tips. Hands and feet brownisli white. 

 Tail of nicdiuni len;^tli, longer than in centralis, and not so 

 heavily hailed as in that species ; black above, dull whitish 

 below. 



Skull of the younger specimen rather larger than in the 

 type ot" E. centralis, which is of about the same age, the roots 

 of the molars being just commencing to form within their 

 basal capsules. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body (measured on skin) 112 mm.; tail (ver- 

 tebrae in situ) 4S ; hind foot (wet) 19; ear (wet) 14. 



Skull : length from nasal tip to back of interparietal 23 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 13; nasals 7; interorbital breadth 4; 

 brain-case breadth 12; palatilar length H; diastema 7; 

 palatal foramina 5 ; upper molar series (crowns) 5. 



Ilah. Thian-Shan (probably near Przewalsk). 



Type. Subadult female. 13. M. no. 8. 3. 2. 18. Collected 

 by A. A. Kutsenko. Two specimens. 



The only species of Evotomys hitherto described from this 

 part of Asia is Mr. Miller's E. centralis, of which the type is 

 in the British Museum. That animal is smaller and shorter- 

 tailed than E. frater, and its colour is that of an ordinary 

 Evotomys, while E. frater is the brownest " red vole " as yet 

 discovered. 



Lepus formosus, sp. n. 



Closely allied to L. sinensis, but the colour throughout 

 paler and less warm. 



Size rather less than in sinensis, though there seems less 

 difference in the skulls than in the hind feet, the Formosan 

 form being therefore proportionally shorter- footed. General 

 colour above greyish, approximating to drab-grey of Kidg- 

 way, heavily lined with black, the subterminal rings on the 

 hairs cream-buff"; bases of hairs slaty. Face like back, an 

 indistinct lighter line running through the eye. Nape 

 jiinkish buff as compared with ochraceous or tawny in 

 sinensis. Chin and belly dull white, a wash of pale buffy 

 passing down the sides of the latter. Band across throat 

 ])ale drab. Limbs buffy, much paler than in sinensis. Ears 

 short, the proectote grizzled greyish like the forehead, met- 

 ectote pinkish buffy like nape proximally, the distal fourth 

 blackish ; metcntote and tlie fringe along the anterior edge 

 buffy whitish, a darker shade on its middle portion. Tail 

 about as in sinensis, except that the colour is paler and greyer. 



In summer pelage the colours arc much the same throughout 

 or perhaps a little browner. 



