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Colour above grizzled black and yellow, giving the general appear- 

 «,nce of olivaceons grey, the individual hairs ringed yellow and 

 black. The posterior back and often the flanks as far as the forelegs 

 washed with " orange rufous," the outside of the thighs entirely that 

 ■colour with a white thigh -patch. Below " ochraceous buff." 

 Forefeet grizzled like the head, hindfeet buff with a median grey line. 



Dimensions of the type, — Head and body, 184 mm; tail, 17Q; 

 hindfoot, 43-5 ; ear, 18*5. Skull. — Gi-eatest length, 46; condylo- 

 basal length, 39-5; zygomatic breadth, 27; upper tooth row 

 ■exclnsive of p\ 8-7. 



Hab. — Kin, Lower Ohindwin River. 



Tyi^e. — Adult male B. M. No. 15. 5. 5. 177. Original number 

 5453. Collected by Mr. G. C. Shortridge, on the 18th June, 1914. 

 Presented to the National Collection by the Bombay Natural History 

 Society. 



Tomeutes mearsi virgo, subsp. nov. 



This is the Upper Ohindwin form (ranging from Kindat north- 

 wards to Hkamti) which, pending receipt of Sikkim specimens of 

 true lokroichi, we did not venture to separate from that species, but it 

 is now clear that they belong to the mearsi and not to the lohroides 

 ^roup. The following is a description of this form, of which 

 Mr. Shortridge obtained over 40 specimens in summer pelage and 

 Mr. Mackenzie has now sent nearly 30 of the winter form. 



General colour above a grey grizzle (the individual hairs ringed 

 "white and black) slightly tinged with brown in the winter, much 

 more markedly so in the summer form. This latter with a pure 

 white thigh-patch below buff. The feet like the ground colour 

 •of the body in winter, but much paler, usually buffy white, in the 

 summer form. 



Dimensions of the type. — Head and body, 180; tail 160; hind- 

 foot, 43 ; ear, 20. Skull. — Greatest length, 48 ; condylo-incisive 

 length, 42 ; zygomatic breadth, 28*5 ; upper tooth-row exclusive of 



p^ 8.2. 



Hah. — Upper Ohindwin (West Bank) from Kindat to Hkamti. 

 (Type from Tatkon). 



Type. — Adult male B. M. No. 15.5.5.169. Original number 

 -5629. Collected by Mr. G. 0. Shortridge on the 5th July, 1914. 

 Presented to the National Collection by the Bombay Natural History 

 Society. 



To make clearer these changes in determination, we may recapitu- 

 late that our previous 

 T. lohroides lokroides from Nepal = T. lohroides lolcroides 



(Winter). 

 T. lohroides lohroides from Upper 



Ohindwin ... ... ...= T. onearsi vifijo (Summev). 



