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height of the third, and its length is equal to that of the outer incisor and canine together. 
The outer incisor is very small; less than the canine. 1 * All the teeth are white. 
Met. Inch. 
Length of skull ......... -017 074 
Do. of bony palate in front of posterior nares . . . *008 0'32 
Breadth of skull where broadest near occiput . . . '008 034 
Length of mandible (incisors not included) . . . '009 0*38 
The above description is taken from the only specimen in the collection, a female. It 
was obtained at Leh on the 9th September, and appears fairly adult, though the basi-occi- 
pital suture has not disappeared. All the teeth are fully grown. The species appears nearly 
allied to S. guldenstaecltii of Pallas, 3 hut that is differently coloured (dusky ash), larger, 
and is said to have very small ears. Another closely affined form is S. fumigatus of De 
F ilil ppi 3 from Northern Persia, hut that is dark lead colour above, ashy beneath. The tail 
is proportionately much shorter in S. myoides than in any Himalayan species with which I 
am acquainted belonging to true Qrocidura, or than in the Tenasserim 8. fuliginosus . 4 
A species of shrew was observed near Lake Lob by Prejevalski, but it has not yet been 
described. 
Order CAKNIYOEA. 
Family— FFLID2E. 
9. Pelis cattjs. 
Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. xii, 1766, i. p. 62. 
Yaw a mashaJc, Turki of Yarkand (Scully). 
A skin of a wild cat, without the skull, brought by Dr. Scully from Eastern Turkestan, 
agrees very well with that of the common wild cat of Europe, except that the tail tapers 
instead of being cylindrical, and that the dark marks are rather indistinct. The bars on the 
tail and legs correspond with those of F. Gains. 
10. Eelis shawiana. Pis. Ib. Ic. 
W. Blanf., J. A. S. B., 1876, xlv, Pt. 2, p. 49. 
F. sp. near F.pardinus ( ? Chaus oaudatus, Gray.) W. Blanf., J. A. S. B., 1875, xliv, Pt. 2, p. 106. 
Molun, Turki of Yarkand. 
Fells E. domesticam magnitudine superans , ad E. chaus proxime accedens ; griseo-fulva, 
nigro-mamlata, subtus alba atque maculis nigris majoribus ornata; caudd breviuscula, 
supra, apicem versus , nec infra, nigro-transfasciata, cranio elongato, el E. viverrime simili, 
vellere molli, basin versus pallide purpurascenti-griseo : longitudine (sc. pellis ) sine caudd 
bipedali, caudce 7—8 unc., cranii 4'25. 
1, Skin without skull or feet, purchased in Yarkand. 
Amongst the collections made by Dr. Stoliczka in Eastern Turkestan, was an imperfect 
skin of a cat. Although I thought it probable that it belonged to an undescribed form, 
there was a bare possibility that it might be a specimen of a species inhabiting Western 
1 The names of the teeth are in accordance with the determinations by Brandt, Zool. Record, 1866, p. 26, and Bull. Soc. Hist. 
Nat. Mosc., xli, pp. 76-95. 
3 Zoog. Ros. As., i, p. 182, pi. IX, fig. 1. 
3 Arch. p. la Zool. Genova, ii, p. 379 ; Note di un Viaggio in Persia, p. 343, 
* Blyth, J. A. S. B., xxiv, p. 362. 
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