ALLEN: MAMMALIA. . 22 
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Epimmys ZAPPEYI, Sp. Nov. 
Type:— Skin and skull No. 7607 M. C. Z., male adult, from Washan 
Mountains, western Szechwan, China, at an altitude of 9,000 feet. October 26, 
1908, Walter R. Zappey. 
General Characters:— Resembling E. confucianus, but with darker face, 
ears, and back, the ochraceous of the sides much richer and brighter, encroach- 
ing more on the belly and extending on to the thighs and on the lower throat to 
the axilla. Ventral surface pure white, without the faint sulphury suffusion. 
Skull slightly smaller than that of E. confucianus with more slender rostrum and 
zygomata, longer and narrower incisive foramina, narrower palate, and smaller, 
more flattened bullae. 
Color:— Muzzle and an ill-defined patch extending from the base of the 
vibrissae to the ear, slate color; forehead and crown, nape, and a somewhat oval 
mid-dorsal area a mixture of hairs mainly slate minutely tipped with ochraceous 
buff, and longer hairs entirely black. The ochraceous buff tips in this area are 
so restricted that the dark color predominates forming a darker and more pro- 
nounced mid-dorsal area than in M. confucianus. Cheeks, sides of the neck, 
upper surfaces of forearms, the flanks, inner sides of the thighs and lower legs, 
and the anal region bright tawny ochraceous, only very slightly mixed with 
scattering short black hairs. A small spot of the same color on the upper chest 
medially between the fore legs. The color of the back and sides encroaches 
farther on the belly than in M. confucianus and is sharply marked off from that 
of the lower surfaces, which including the upper lips, chin, and throat, are clear 
snowy white to the bases of the hairs, quite without the wash of sulphury found 
in £. confucianus. Upper surface of fore and hind feet clove-brown medially, 
the toes and borders white. Tail white ventrally and for the terminal third 
dorsally, the proximal two thirds nearly clove-brown above, covered with minute 
setae that become short hairs distally till they form finally a distinct pencil 
about 6 mm. long. 
Skull:— The skull of the type is evidently adult but not old; the teeth are 
somewhat worn but the supraorbital ridges are not very strongly developed. 
Compared with that of 2. confucianus the rostrum and the zygomata are much 
slenderer, the nasals narrower and more compressed laterally at their free end. 
The incisive foramina are longer and narrower, not short and broadly expanded; 
the palate is narrower and the anterior end of the interpterygoid fossa scarcely 
expanded. The audital bullae are conspicuously smaller and flatter. 
