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JOUENAL OF MAMMALOGY 
Description. — Upper parts a uniform pale cinnamon color, instead of dark 
reddish brown of M. rixosa pygmoea, including the outer side of fore and hind 
limbs to the base of toes; lower parts, inside of the limbs, fore feet, and apical 
half of hind feet pure white, the lower parts unmixed with any other mottling; 
edge of upper lip and lower half of cheeks white; ears very small, cinnamon 
haired like the upper parts; tail short. 
The type specimen was obtained at Awomori, N. Hondo, Japan, and was 
presented to me by Mr. K. Wada. Date unknown. 
The late Mr. M. Namiye examined a specimen of this animal obtained by 
Mr. E. Kinashi at Awomori, November 9, 1907, wrote a brief description of it, and 
named it after Mr. Kinashi (“Shokuniku Shoju Rui Chosa Hokoku,’’ Jan., 1911). 
This report was sent to the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, but un- 
fortunately remains unpublished. For that reason I publish the more detailed 
description of this interesting animal under the above subspecific name in mem- 
ory of Mr. Namiye. 
The weasel is distributed from northern Hondo to Hokkaido. Some weasels 
were obtained on Sakhalin, Kurile Islands, and on the Korean Peninsula, but 
I have not yet examined their skins. 
It is a very interesting fact that the Japanese form belongs to the rixosa group 
of Arctic America rather than to the Old World nivalis { = vulgaris) group. J. 
A. Allen also mentioned the fact when he described his pygmcea from Siberia. 
Pteropus daitoensis sp. nov. 
Pteropus dasymallus (nec Temminck), Ktjroda, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. IX^ 
p. 599, 1920 (part.). 
Description. — Fur of back long and spreading, especially on mantle and 
hind neck, where wooly in structure; ears short, half visible from the outside of 
the fur; sides of crown, face, cheeks, chin, lower half of the dorsal parts and 
flanks, as well as clothed parts of tibia and forearm, seal-brown; this hair tipped 
with grayish or buffy on center of lower back; center of crown, occiput, whole 
hind neck, mantle, breast and center of abdomen very pale whitish buff, faintly 
tinged with yellowish; crown somewhat sprinkled with seal-brown hairs; this 
pale color on center of crown passing through the forehead and reaching to the 
base of nose; a large golden buff patch on both sides of neck and continued in 
middle of fore neck; the pale area on center of abdomen sprinkled with seal- 
brown longer hairs; the bases of fur in all pale areas with the same color as the 
apical parts. 
