464 ME. OLDFIELB THOMAS ON [May 7, 



Skull : greatest length 29 mm. ; basal length 24-2 ; greatest 

 breadth 14 ; interorbital breadth 6*8 ; palatal length 12 ; front of 

 canine to back of m^ 10" 2. 



Eah. Kuatun, N.W. Fokien, alt. 3500'. 



Type. Adult female in spirit. B.M. No. 98.8.17.1. Collected 

 and presented by Mr. J. de La Touche. Six specimens seen, 

 presented by Messrs. La Touche and 0. B. Rickett. 



My only excuse for having confused this distinct species with 

 M. wogura lies in the fact that at the date my paper was written 

 hardly any specimens of true woguraweve available for examination, 

 a state of things now materially altered by the assistance, first of 

 Mr. R. Gordon Smith in Japan, and then by the results of the 

 Duke of Bedford's Exploration in the various localities concerned. 



In doing his palseontological work Dr. Forsyth Major had 

 already noticed the peculiarities of this Mole, but has not found 

 time to describe it, and now wishes me to do so. 



4. Felis microtis M.-Edw. 



745, 746. Skins purchased at Taiku. 



5. Nyctereutes procyonoides Gray. 

 1197. Skin purchased at Fusan. 



6. Putorius sibiricus Pall. 



c? . 1162. Chong-ju, 68 miles S. of Seoul, 500'. 



7. SCIURUS VULGARIS L. 



J. 1152. $.1151. Kaloguai, 55 miles N.E. of Seoul, 500'. 



Apparently subsp. calotus Hodgs., but more material is needed 

 before the exact relationship to each other of calotus, orientis, and 

 rupestris can be made out. 



Since writing the description of the Saghalien subspecies 

 rupestris*, on summer skins, I have found a winter example of 

 the same form among some Siberian Squirrels received in 1897 

 from the St. Petersburg Museum. This specimen is a clear grey, 

 without any trace of the rufous suffusion on the back so marked 

 in the Hokkaido Squirrel /S. v. orientis. 



8. SCIUROPTERUS ALUCO, Sp. n. 



5 . 1148. Kaloguai, 55 miles N.E. of Seoul, 500', 25th Nov., 

 1906. B.M. No. 7.6.3.18. Type. 



More buffy than S. russicus, paler than S. momonga. Teeth 

 very small. 



Size rather less than in S. russicus and S. •momonga amygdali, 

 greater than in the true S. momonga. General colour pale buffy 

 drab, not so strong as in momonga nor of such a clear grey as in 

 russicus. Upper surface of hands and feet grey, the light hairs 



* Supra, p. 410. 



