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Filchner expedition. In addition to N. viverrinus and N. albus from the Japan- 
ese islands, he recognizes V. procyonides of Gray from east central China (of which 
he makes NV. sinensis Brass, 1904, “‘ Nutzbare Tiere Ostasiens,”’ a synonym) and 
describes as new NV. ussuriensis and N. amurensis from Siberia, and N. stegmannt 
from the Yangtze basin. The last is said to differ from N. viverrinus in having 
the bases of the woolly hairs on the back blackish gray instead of reddish gray, 
the shoulders ticked with whitish gray on a dark ground instead of being blackish 
brown, while the sides of the body are not much darker than the clear band back 
of the shoulder. In size, the Yangtze animal is superior, being 82 em. instead 
of 70 em. in total length. 
The skin of a single female, without skull, obtained by Mr. Zappey in 
December, 1908, at Suifu, western Szechwan, agrees well enough with Matschie’s 
‘description of N. stegmanni. The dried skin measures about 82 em. in total 
length. The general color is pale buff, clear on the sides of the neck, behind 
the shoulders, and on the lower surfaces of the body and tail, but elsewhere is 
mixed with black particularly on the mid-dorsal area and on the terminal half 
of the tail above. The lower limbs and patch below the eye are dark chocolate 
and the chin and throat are tinged with the same. No doubt further material 
will show intergradation between these described species. 
MUSTELIDAE. 
LUTREOLA MOUPINENSIS Milne Edwards. 
A male and a female from Tachiao (12,000 feet) and a second female from 
Washan (9,000 feet), western Szechwan, are in the collection, the two former 
in summer pelage, the latter in winter. The two summer skins were taken on 
the 17th and 20th of September respectively and are essentially similar in colora- 
tion, a nearly uniform Vandyke-brown above, darkest on the forehead and muzzle 
shading into pale cinnamon on the ventral surfaces. The extreme tip of the 
tail is a seal-brown or blackish with one or two white hairs. The female in 
freshly assumed winter pelage, October 28, 1908, is cinnamon above, slightly 
darker along the median line, shading into a clear buff below. These specimens 
measured by the collector are as follows:— 
No. Locality. Sex. Length. Tail. Hind Foot. 
7834 Tachiao fou 543 198 59 
7835 Tachiao 9 428 156 37 
7836 Washan 9 432 167 49 
