Abstract: The fossil locality at Hounao, Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, PRC, was first excavated in 1955 and 1956 by an IV PP reconnaissance team, and a considerable number of specimens of the Cervidae were collected. A new species Metatervulus lepidus was reported and described (Hu, 1962), but the rest specimens had not been studied in detail. Since the Sino-American joint project "Neogene Rocks and Faunas. Y ushe Basin, Shanxi, PRC" from 1987. the detailed study of fauna material has been under way. This paper presents the study on the Cervidae found at Hounao. one of the most fruitful locality in Shanxi. The sediments at Hounao are composed of fluvial deposits which are grouped into Mahui Formation (Qiu et al., 1987). The latter is dated by paleomagnetic analyses as about 5.4—5.8Ma, within the Late Miocene (Wu et al. 1992). The specimens referred in this paper are all registered and housed at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology except the ones with other notice. The dental nomenclature used in this paper is based on that of Dong (1993).