1880. J DR. A. GUNTHER ON JAPANESE MAMMALIA. 441 



specimen (Plate XLII. fig. A), preserved in spirits, was obtained by the 

 late Mr. J, K. Lord, who described its habits in the P. Z. S. for 1864, 

 p. 161. 



As far as external characters are concerned, the American species 

 could scarcely be generically distinguished from the Japanese form. 

 Its snout and nostrils are similarly formed. The eye is in the same 

 rudimentary condition, little conspicuous, and nearly hidden under 

 the skin. The ears are wide slits, nearly longitudinal with regard 

 to the axis of the body, and placed so far back on the side of the 

 head as to be opposite to the base of the fore legs. The fore feet 

 (fig. a) are rather broader than in V. talpoides (fig. b), whilst the 

 tarsal tubercles on the sole of the hind feet (fig. a!) are much less 

 developed than in that species (fig. U). The fur is lustrous, but 

 less so than in the female from Yokohama described above ; and 

 the hairs on the tail are so sparse and short as to leave the verticelli 

 uncovered, almost as in a rat's tail. The specimen has an extremely 

 thin but prominent penis, projecting 5 millims. beyond the skin. 



"With regard to its dentition (figs, u, I) U.gihbsii differs so much 

 from the Japanese species, that, in my opinion, it should be placed in 

 a distinct genus, for which the name Neiirutrichus may be used. 



Mr. Mivart in the 'Journal of Anatomy and Physiology,' ii. 18G8, 

 arranges the dental formula for the Japanese Urotrichus thus: — 



^ 2—2 n 1—1 T> 4—4 HT 3—3 20 r,c 



I. r_r C.— . Pm. — . M. —=- = 36. 

 In Neurotnchus the formula would be 



J 2-2 p, 1-1 T) 3-3 AT 3— 3_18 „^ 



Dr. Baird (Mamm. N. Am. p. 77) has already mentioned the 

 curious scalpriform modification of the upper and lower front in- 

 cisors, which remind us of those of Scalops and Condylura ; the upper 

 are much broader than the lower, and inserted in a vertical posi- 

 tion, whilst the lower are subhorizontal. 



Talpa mizura, n. sp. 



Japan is inhabited by a second species of Mole beside Talpa 

 wof/ura. In a collection made by Mr. H. Pryer in the neighbourhood 

 of Yokohama, there is, beside specimens of the common species, the 

 dried skin of a Mole distinguished bj' the uniform slate-colour of its 

 fur, which is also less dense and elastic than in Talpa wogura. But 

 the most obvious distinctive character is its much longer tail : the 

 total length of the specimen is 48 lines, the tail measuring 10 lines, 

 or a little more than one fifth of the length of the body. In a speci- 

 men of Talpa loogura of similar size, namely 46 lines, the tail is 

 only 6 lines long, or nearly one eighth of the length of the body. 

 In other respects I do not find any difference from Talpa wogura, 

 and unfortunately the skin is in too bad a condition to allow of the 

 extraction of the skull. 



Ursus arctos, Linn. 



Mr. Maries obtained from Yeterop, the largest of the Kurile 



