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distance. Nine times out of ten what is meant by these words 

 is Ladak — a truly Tibetan province in its physical features, 

 but politically part of Kashmir. 



If, as we may hope, future travellers are able to penetrate 

 or send native collectors into other parts of Tibet, such as the 

 Chumbi valley, bordering on Sikkim, or the frontier districts 

 adjoining Upper Assam, the locality from whence specimens 

 are brought should always be specified, and the bare terra 

 Himalayas or, still worse. Northern India (which may mean 

 any thing from Calcutta to Suddya or Kashgar) abolished. 



As regards the next species described by Mr. Butler, Papilio 

 7iebulosus, I cannot agree with him, believing it to be merely 

 an aberration of P. antiphates^ as, indeed, he suggests it 

 may be. 



I procured at Darjiling two specimens of this aberration, 

 neither of which agrees exactly with the other or with Mr. 

 Butler's specimen in its markings, though they have both 

 the same character. The gentleman in whose collection they 

 were, and who, I believe, got them in the same season as Dr. 

 Lidderdale's specimen, agreed with Mr. Godman and myself 

 in this determination ; and though it certainly appears to 

 mimic P. euphrates^ I think there is every reason to believe it 

 is not a good species. If, however, it is necessary to breed it 

 from the Qg^ of P. antiphates in order to prove this, I am 

 afraid many years will elapse before the matter is cleared up. 



L. — Description of a new Species of Mole from China. 

 By Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S., British Museum. 



The specimen here described was obtained near Pekin by the 

 late Mr. Hobert Swinhoe during the British expedition to 

 that place in 1860. Shortly after its arrival in England it was 

 mentioned by Dr. Gray* as a new species, but was not named 

 or described. Later it was referred to by Mr. Swinhoef 

 under the belief that it was identical with a mole obtained 

 by P^re David in Mongolia, and described by Prof. A. Milne- 

 Edwards in his ' Hecherches pour servir a I'Histoire natu- 

 rellc des Mammiff;res ' as Scaptochirus moschatus\. I propose 

 to call the new species, on account of the comparative slender- 

 ness of its tail, 



* P. Z. S. 1801, p. 390. 



t P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 4/50 and 620. (In the latter place Mr. Swinhoe 

 quotes the name as ^Scaptochirus DavkUanus, a term which has never been 

 used by Prof. Milne-Edwards.) 



X Texte, p. 173, Atl. pi. 17 a. 



