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Show 1899.] ON CHINESE MAMMALS. 573 bushy as in the female. The cheeks, throat, and sides of the head and neck are bright red-rust colour; the crown of the head and nape are rich red-brown, instead of being nearly black. The inner sides of the limbs, and upper sides of the hands and feet are much more richly coloured orange or bright golden red. The hairs on all parts are very lustrous. The measurements of the skull of this old animal are very much larger than those given by M , Milne-Edwards : the breadth of the face outside the orbit is 90 millim., the greatest expansion of tbe zygomata 100 ; while the breadth of the constriction behind the eyes is 51, as in the younger specimen. The base of the skull has been cut away, so that it is not possible to give very full measurements. EHINOLOPHUS ROTJXI. Rhinolophus rouxii, Temminck, Mon. Mamm. ii. p. 30 b. 8 . Chin Teh, Anlrwei. A small, almost uniform reddish-brown Bat; the forearm measures 45 millim., or 1*75 inch. VESPERTILIO DISCOLOR SUPERANS. Vespertilo discolor superans, Thomas, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 770. Sa Sa hu, Ichang. This large form described recently seems well worthy of the distinguishing name that has been applied. In the present specimen the forearm measures 54 millim., the thumb without the claw 7. NECTOGALE ELEGANS. Nectogale elegans, M.-Edw. C. E. Acad. Sci. 1870, t. Ixx. p. 341; Eech. Mamm. 1874, p. 266, pis. 39, 39 A. fig. 1. 2 • Yang-liu-pa, N.W. Sechuen. This specimen agrees in every particular with the description given by M . Milne-Edwards. There are two specimens of Nectogale from Sikhim in the British Museum; these two are larger and much more brown in colour, and have the lower parts of a much less pure white, the colour of the upper parts blending with that of the lower, there being no sharp dividing line. The whole tint of the animal is more brown, the pale ridges of the tail are buff-coloured, and even the longer glistening hairs of the body are inclined to yellow. When wet the iridescent colours are purple and not green. In its dentition the most evident distinction is, that the shorter cusp of the large incisor is cut away so that the line of the anterior edge of this cusp is continuous with the anterior edge of the next tooth. I name this Himalayan form Nectogale sikhimensis. I have taken as a tvpe No. 96. 1. 1. 9 in the British Museum, collected by Surg.-Maj. Waddell, Oct. 1891, at Lathong, 10,000 ft. alt. |
