VOL. XIV, PP. 39-40 APRIL 25, 1901 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW DORMOUSE FROM ITALY.* 



BY GERRIT S. MILLER, JR. 



Among the mammals collected in Italy during the summer of 

 1900 by Mr. Dane Coolidge are five specimens of an Eliomys 

 related to E. quercimts but differing from it in*the color pattern 

 of the tail and in the general coloration of the body. It is not 

 closely allied to the Sicilian Eliomys pallidus Barrett-Hamilton, 

 so far as can be determined from the description of the latter. 



Eliomys cincticauda sp. nov. 



Type. Adult male (skin and skull) No. 103,030 United States National 

 Museum. Collected at Sorrento, near Naples, Italy, May 31, 1900 by 

 Dane Coolidge. Original number 1118. 



Characters. Size and general appearance as in Eliomys quercinus, but 

 dorsal surface light wood-brown, and tail completely encircled by the 

 black subterminal area. Line of demarkation en sides sharply defined 

 and as conspicuous as in E. quercinus. Skull and teeth not peculiar. 



Color. Entire upperparts wood-brown (slightly paler than Ridgway's 

 pi. Ill, fig. 19) brightest on head and on middle of back, inconspicuous 

 ly sprinkled with blackish hairs, and lightened across shoulders and on 

 sides by a suffusion of pale ecru-drab. The individual hairs are mostly 

 slate-gray (Ridgway pi. II, fig. 5) through a little more than basal half, 

 then pale ecru-drab for a varying distance, followed by wood-brown at 

 tip. Among the hairs of this kind are scattered longer ones that appear 

 to be blackish throughout. The varying width of the ecru-drab and 



*Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



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