ti. Mammalia. II. Ordres, Families and Genera. 1173 



tcaldii, callitrickus and Mn/cri iiu. spp. Notes from the Ley deu Museum. 1879. 

 p. 713. 



Acunthomys leucopus of Gray. Edward E. Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1879. 

 p. 045 647. Belongs not to Acanthomys, but is a true Mus. The specific name 

 leucopus being preoccupied by an American species, Alston proposes the specific 

 title terrae-reginae. 



Mus Everetti n. sp. A.Giiuther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1879. p. 75. Philippine 

 Islands. 



Hallomys n. g. Size and dentition as Mus dccumanus , hind feet highly enlarged, 

 ears longer, the tip of the tail for about one sixth the length is oriiated with pure 

 white hairs; - - H. Audclerti n. sp. F. A. Jentink, Notes from the Leydeu 

 Museum. 1879. p. 107, from Madagascar ( Mai sine and Savary) . 



Rkizamys cn/t//r<>c/(>nus n. sp. J. Anderson, Auat. and Zool. Res. Yunnan Exp. 

 p. 324. pi. XIIIA. Hab. Salwiu Hill Tracts. 



Hespcromys Inicojnts Raf. must have the specific name americanus Kerr, with the sub- 

 species : H. americanus sononensis. H. americanus eremicus, //. amcricanus gossypi- 

 nxs, etc. E. Cones, The Americ. Naturalist. 1879. Vol. 13. Nr. 12. p. 784. 



Myudcs torquatus (fossil remains) found in a cave near Rabenstein (Oberfranken) . 

 A. Nehring, Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Naturwiss. 52. Bd. Jan. Febr. p. 142 

 144. The author adds a list of the localities where in Germany are found fossil 

 remains of Myodcs torquatus., viz: Quedlinburg, Ulni, Thiede, Wcsteregeln, Hers- 

 bruck, Goslar, Gera, Saalfeld, Potteustein, Rabensteiu and Wtirzburg; and 

 of Myodcs Icmmus : Quedlinburg, Thiede, Westeregeln, Gera and Saalfeld. -- For 

 still other localities, see 1. c. p. 634 and 635. 



Elliot, Walter, Some account of the Plague of Field Mice in the Border Farms, in 1876 77, 

 with Observations on the Genus Arricola in general, in : Transact, of the Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Club. Vol. 8. May 1879. (26 p. and one woodcut). 

 Three species of the Genus Arvicola inhabit Great-Britain, viz : the Water Rat 

 (A. ampMbius), the Red or Bank Vole (A. glarcolus), and the Field Vole (A. agrcstis), 

 according to Sir Walter Elliot, 1. c. p. 1). The same observer cannot believe 

 that A. arvulis is distinct from the A. ugrestis L. and he concludes that these two 

 form but one species, which should stand under the name originally assigned to 

 it in the Systema Naturae of A. agrcstis (ibid. p. 22). 



Lcssona, M., Intorno Agli Arvicolini del Piemonte. in: Atti della R. Ace. clelle Sc. di Torino. 

 Vol. 14. p. 721730. 



The following species now belong to the Fauna of Piemont, viz : Arvicola am- 

 phibmsii., A. niv alis Martins, A. arvalis Pallas, A. Savii de Selys, A. subtcrrancus 

 de Selys. 

 Arvicola (Microtus) Gcrbiin. sp. A. de Lisle, Le Naturaliste. Nr. 7. 1. Juillet 



1879. p. 51. Bassin de la Loire. 



Gerbe, L., Note relative a 1' 'Arvicola (Microtus) pyrenaicus (de Selys). in: Le Naturaliste. 

 Nr. 7. 1. Juillet 1879. p. 51. 



Fam. Hystricidae. 



Hystrix yunnanensis n. sp. J. Anderson, Auat. and Zool. Res. Yunnan Exp., 

 p. 332, from the East of the Kakhyen-hills (2000 4500 feet); - - H. pumila 

 n. sp. A. Giinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Vol. 4. 1879. p. 106. Hab. 

 Paragua, Philippine Islands; H. Mullen, Temminck MS. by F. A. Jen- 

 tink, Notes from the Leyden Museum. 1879. p. 87 91, from Sumatra. 



Jentink, F. A., describes Hystrix prehensilis auctorum and H. Brandtiin. sp., from 

 South-America. Notes from the Leydeu Museum. 1879. p. 93 96. 



