334 JME. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON [Nov. 28, 



Kiusliiu : 



RhinolopMis ferrimi-eqidnum nippon. 



Myotis viacrodactylus, vattereri hombinus. 



Miniopterus schreibersi japonice. 



Crocidura ca'?^ulea, dsi-nezunii. 



Urotrichus talpoides. 



Mustela melampus. 



Putorius itatsi. 



Meles anakuma. 



Petaurista leucogenys. 



Micromys speciosus, geisha, minutus japonicus. 



Microtus montebelli. 



Evotomys (Phaidoviys) smithii. 



Lepus hrachyurus. 



In order to focus so far as possible the existing information 

 abont the mammals of Japan, I have prepared the following 

 resume of the literature, which, apart from Temminck's fine work, 

 is of a very fragmentary character. 



1824. Siebold, G. T. de. Spicilegia Faun. Japon., in Dissertatio 

 Hist. Nat. Japon. p. 13. 

 Description of '■'■Myoxus lineatus" — a Tamias, from Hokkaido. 



1842-45. Temminck, C. J. Mammalia of P. F. de Siebold's 

 ' Fauna Japonica,' pp. 1-60, pis. i.-xxx. 



A complete account of the Fauna, as known from the col- 

 lections sent by Messrs. Siebold, Burger, and other Dutch 

 naturalists to the Ley den Museum. 



One of the finest and most complete faunistic works ever 

 published. Up to 1904, that is, for more than sixty years, the 

 only valid species added to those contained in it were Microtus 

 montebelli M.-Edw., Murina Mlgendorfi Peters, and TaVpa 

 mizura Giinth. 



The following species are first described in this great work : — 

 2Iacacus fuscatus (under the wsime oilnuus speciosus), Pteropus 

 dasymallus, Rhinolophus nippon and cornutus, Pterygistes 

 niolossus, Myotis macrodactylus, Pipistrellus abramus and 

 akakomuli, Tcdpa wogura, Urotrichus talpoides, Chimarrogale 

 platycephala, GrociduTa dsi-nezumi and umbrina, Meles ana- 

 kuma, Mustela melampus and brachyura, Putorius itatsi, 

 Nyctereutes viverrinus, Lepus hrachyurus, Sciurus lis, Pteromys 

 leucogenys, Sciuropterus momonga, Mus erythronotus, argenteus, 

 molossinus, tanezumi, and speciosus, Glirulus japonicus, Cervus 

 sika, Nemorhcedus crispus, and Sus leucomystax. 



1857. Schlegel, H. 



Ursus japonicus, sp. n. Handl. Beoefening der Dierkunde, 

 i. p. 42 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 261 ; Giinther, P.Z. S. 1880, 

 p. 442. 



The U. torquatus of the ' Fauna Japonica.' 



