SCIUEID.E— ARCTOMYS. 



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Genus ARCTOMYS Schreber. 



Mus Linnaeus (in i art). 



(ills Erxleben, Sjst. Rig. Auini. 1777, 358 (in part). 



Mures soporosi Pallas, Nov. Spec. Glires, 1778, 74 (excluding bis Mus oitillus). 

 .Arclomys Schreber, Siiuget. iv, 1792* [prior to 1788], 720 (in part; includes also SpermopMlus). 

 Arctomys F. Cuvier, Dents des Mam. 1825, 159, 254, pi. liv (based on "Arctomys alpinus Linn." and " Arc- 

 tomys empelva Pall.").t 



* " Theil IV " of Schteber's Siitigelhiere bears the date " 1792 ", which is probably the date of the 

 completion of the part, and not of (be publication of the earlier fasciculi. Gmelin quotes Schreber in 

 bis Systema Naturse, which bears the date 1788, and credits Schreber with the genus Arclomys. On the 

 other hand, Schreber first quotes Gineliti's work under Hyrax, near the end of Theil IV, and two hundred 

 pages beyond Arctomys. The publication of Arctomys by Schreber must have, been as early as 1788, and 

 may have been several years prior to this date. The description of Arctomys occurs near the end of the 

 first third of Theil IV. The date on the title page of Theil III is 177^. 



t M. F. Cuvier says, at the end of his description of the dentition of Arctomys,—" Ces dents ont ctei 

 decrites d'apres la marmotte des Alpes, et d'apres l'empe'tra de Pallas." In his "Table nielhodique des 



