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Show 1876.] MR. A. H. GARROD ON LOPHOTRAGUS MICHIANUS. 757 soles-points which have caused Drs. Baird* and Couesf to separate that species as a subgenus Oryzomys. It differs strikingly, however, not only in size and coloration, but in the long and nearly naked tail. In the latter it rather agrees with the forms named H. (Tyloi/iys) nudicaudus by Dr. Peters']; and Neomys panamensis by Gray § ; but these have a different type of skull, the supraorbital edges being produced laterally instead of vertically. From the character of the feet, I should expect that H. couesi would prove to be at least partially aquatic in its habits. 3. O n the Chinese Deer named Lophotragus michianus by Mr. Swinhoe. By A. H. GARROD, M.A., F.R.S., Prosector to the Society. [Received November 7, 1876.] (Plate LXXVI.) At a meeting of this Society in 1874 (P.Z.S. 1874, p. 453), Mr. R. Swinhoe described a small Deer sent him from the neighbourhood of Ningpo by Mr. Michie, of Shanghai, and gave it the name Lophotragus michianus, after its discoverer. The specimen consisted of a skin, without the skull or any other bones. Mr. Sclater, at the time, suggested that it might be the Elaphodus cephalophus, which had been described shortly before|| by M . Alphonse Milne-Edwards from specimens obtained by Pere David in Moupin. Mr. Michie informed Mr. Swinhoe that the specimen was a female; and Dr. Peters, of Berlin, who carefully examined it before it was mounted for the national collection in that city, has courteously answered questions which I put to him with reference to it (the type) in the following words:-"It does not show a trace of horns. . . . It shows well-developed teats, and not a trace of a penis; there is no trace of an impression on the lower lip, as would have been the case if it had been furnished with the male tusks, figured from imagination in Swinhoe's figure." From what will be said further on it can be evidently inferred that the type specimen is a female. A second specimen, a living male, of the same Deer was purchased by the Society on February 12th last from Mr. Michie's agent. It also came from the Ningpo district. Mr. Sclater's note wfih reference to it, together with a woodcut of the animal, will be found in the ' Proceedings' for this year (anted, p. 273). In this he tells us that "the canines project from the sides of the mouth, as in Hydropotes. There are no external antlers ; but there are hard * Mamm. N. Amer. p. 458. t Proc. Acad. P ilad. 1874, p. 183 \ Monatsb. Ak. Berlin, 1866, p. 404. § Ann. & Mag. Nat Hist. 4th ser. xii. p. 417. || Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 1874, Bull. p. 93. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1876, No. L. 50 |