120 W. T. Blanford— On Myospalax fuscicapillus, Blyth. [No. 2, 



outer appears to be double, (it is difficult to be certain of the characters in 

 a dried specimen ;) the third is inside the base of the 5th toe, the two 

 posterior tubercles are considerably larger than the rest and the inner is 

 rather more distal than the outer. On the hind foot the second toe is 

 nearly as long as the third and considerably longer than the fourth, exceed- 

 ing it by nearly the same amount as the fourth itself extends beyond the 

 first, which again is but little longer than the fifth. There are 6 distinct 

 pads or tubercles beneath the hind foot, arranged in 3 pairs as usual, the 

 inner pad of the second pair, at the base of the first toe, appears to be 

 double, those forming the proximal pair are nearly opposite to each other 

 and are rather nearer to the anterior pair than to the heel. The whole 

 planta to the heel is naked, though there are long hairs on the sides of 

 the feet. 



Tail very short, thinly clad with long light yellowish brown hair, that 

 extends -^ inch beyond the end. 



The following are the dimensions of the dried shin. 



inches. 



Length nose to rump 5, 



„ tail, without hair at end 035 



„ forefoot without claws 0*67 



„ middle toe ditto 0'28 



„ hindfoot from heel ditto - 85 



„ middle toe ditto 0-25 



The skull is that of an aged individual the occipital crest is very 

 strongly developed and the sutures too fully anchylosed for the shape of 

 the interparietal to be distinguished. The cranium is not quite perfect, 

 the parts around the foramen magnum, including the auditory bullae, having 

 been cut away. Compared with the skulls of Arvicola, the most striking 

 differences are the greater thickness of all the bones, the much greater 

 development of the occipital crest, of the zygomatic arch, and of the bones 

 of the anterior or facial portion generally, as compared to the brain case. 

 The measurements are : — 



inch. met. 



Length from middle of occipital plane to end of nasals 1-34 *0345 



„ from paroccipital process to front of incisors 162 *041 



„ of suture between nasals 047 *012 



Breadth across hinder part of zygomatic arches 1*1 *028 



„ across brain pan behind zygomatic process of squamosal 0*6 '015 



„ across frontals where narrowest between orbits 023 "006 



Length of row of upper molars (crowns only) 0*32 '008 



Distance from anterior end of upper molar to base of incisors 055 '014 

 Length of anterior palatine foramina 0-14 '0035 



