On some Mammals from Kashmir. 9,5 No. 5 (Plate VI. fig. 5, twice nat. size). — Length i inch. Handle stout. Lamella about a third of the whole, 2 lines broad at the broadest part, somewhat elliptical in shape, con-vex on one side, concave on the other, armed with about fifteen stout closely-placed teeth, which are longest in the centre, gradually diminishing in length on both sides. This plate somewhat resembles my No. 2 ; but the teeth are much stouter, more erect, and have no definite space between their bases, as most of the previously described forms have. In these characters it approaches the Bohemian examples, and also somewhat Mr. Barkas's figures in the ' Geological Magazine' [loc. cif-.), if the latter correctly represent his speci-mens. Dr. Traquair has kindly allowed me to examine his specimens of Euctenius ; and there can be no doubt of the identity of the two. Found by Mr. W. T. Kinnear in the ironstone of Bargh Lee^ near Edinburgh, and now in my collection. XL — On some Mammals from the North-west Frontier of Kashmir. By J. Scully. The following notes are founded on a small but interesting collection of mammals made by Major J. Biddulph during the course of last year in Astor, Gilgit, Yassin, and Deosai — districts in the extreme north-west part of Kashmir or on the frontier of the state in that direction. A note on the mam-malian fauna of the first three places above mentioned, with a slight sketch of their physical aspects, will be found in a paper written by me in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 197 • of Deosai, which I have not visited, I quote the following description from Mr. F. Drew's ' Jummoo and Kashmir Territories,' p. 376 (1875) : — " Deosai is a plateau, a mass of high land, surrounded by yet higher mountains. The centre of it lies 25 miles south-south-west from Skardu *, while the nearer edge is only 10 miles from that place. There is a ring of mountains, irregular, but still of a general circular form, the diameter of which from crest to crest of the ridge is about 25 miles. These mountains make a rugged serrated barrier of a height of from 16,000 to 17,000 feet. Within this ring is flat, though not completely flat, country, made up of plateaus more or less separated by flat valleys a few hundred feet below * Skardu or Iskardo is the capital of Baltistan (Little Thibet), and is situated in lat. 35° 22' N. and long. 76° 27' E.
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