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Southern Shen-si and Kan-su, with the intention of exploring 

 the mountain-ranges between those provinces and Eastern 

 Tibet. Owing, however, to the breaking out of the recent 

 revolution in China, Mr. Owen's party had to shorten their 

 work and to come home through Tibet and Russia in Asia, 

 by which route they were fortunately enabled to transport in 

 safety such collections as they had made before the revolution 

 broke out. 



The small mammals, which Mr. Fenwick-Owen has now 

 presented to the British Museum, were all prepared by his 

 companion and interpreter, Dr. J. A. C. Smith, who had 

 already accompanied Mr. Malcolm Anderson into this region, 

 and had also made collections on his own account, so that 

 both country and fauna were well known to him. 



The collection consists of 68 specimens, belonging to 18 

 species, of which 7 are new, thus again showing the richness 

 and diversity of the fauna of this wonderful region. 



Of these by far the most striking is the new mole, Scapan- 

 nluj oweni, representing a new genius more allied to the 

 American moles than to any previously known in Asia. 

 Other valuable accessions are the Zapus, the Sicista, and the 

 new shrews of the new genera Blarinella and Chodsigoa. 



Mr. Fenwick-Owen and Dr. Smith are to be congratulated 

 on the amount of novelties yielded by the collection, which 

 forms a most valuable supplement to the series obtained by 

 Mr. Anderson during the Duke of Bedford's Exploration of 

 Eastern Asia. 



1. Scapanulus oweni, gen. et sp. n. 



<?. 59. 46 miles S.E. of Tao-chou, Kan-su. Alt. 10,000'. 



cJ. 72. 23 miles S.E. of Tao-chou. 9000'. 



"In mossy undergrowth in fir-forest." /. A. C. S. 



SCAPANULUS, gen. nov. (Talpidae, subfam. Scalopince). 



Manus broadly expanded, nearly as much so as in the tine 

 moles, more so than in Scaptonyx. Claws rather slender for 

 a mole ; those of hind foot thin, rather straight, except that 

 of the hallux, which is curved. On both sides in both speci- 

 mens the hallux is peculiarly twisted away from the other 



