114 Bibliographical Notice. 
instead of being bowed backwards ; the supraorbital rims are 
more developed (though still small for so large an animal), 
and are continued along the parietals to the outer corners of 
the intermaxillary. Anterior edge of anteorbital plate more 
slanting. Posterior nares wider and more open than in the 
allied form. Incisors broad, pale yellowish, finely but irregu- 
larly striated in front. 
Dimensions of the type (an adult female in skin) :— 
Head and body (probably stretched) 310 millim. ; tail 290; 
hind foot (moistened) 60 *. 
Skull: basal length 51°3; greatest breadth 27:4; nasals 
23 x 56; interorbital breadth 8°2; breadth of brain-case 21°3 ; 
interparietal 7x 16:2; palate length from henselion 26; 
diastema 17 ; anterior palatine foramina 10°6x 4; length of 
upper molar series 91. 
Hab. Kuatun, N.W. Fokien. 
Type: B.M. no. 97.6.6.2. 
This fine rat is evidently very closely allied to Mus 
Bowerst, which is a native of Burma and Tenasserim, and is 
therefore widely distinct from it geographically. It differs, 
however, by its rather larger size, especially its longer hind 
feet, and by the various cranial differences above enumerated, 
It is named in honour of Mr. J. de La Touche, of Foochow, 
to whom, in conjunction with Mr. Rickett, the British 
Museum is indebted for a considerable number of valuable 
Chinese mammals. Among these may be specially mentioned 
examples of the rare T'yphlomys cinereus, M.-Edw., specimens 
which have enabled me for the first time to show the proper 
position of this interesting genus f. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
Ueber die Palpen der Rhopaloceren. Hin Beitrag zur Erkenntnis 
der Verwandschaftlichen Beziehungen unter den Tagfaltern. Yon 
Enzio Rrvrrr. (Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennice, tom. xxii. 
No. 1.) (Helsingfors, 1896.) 
Tue early writers on insects used to complain that the Order 
Lepidoptera was one of the most difficult of all to classify, on account 
of the deficiency of characters. But with the increase of our know- 
* The two other specimens have hind feet 57°5 and 58 millim. long. 
Three spirit-specimens of M. Bowerst in the Fea collection have feet 
respectively 5], 51, and 52 millim. in length. 
+ P. Z. 8S. 1896, p. 1016. 
