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Another name proposed by Gray in the same work (Griffith's 

 An. King. V, 1827, 228), is Sicista, which has as its type and 

 only species Mus subtilns Pallas, which is also the type of the 

 later Sminthus Keys. & BL, 1840. The species currently re 

 ferred to Sminthus will thus stand as follows: (1) Sicista sub- 

 tilns (Pallas); (2) Sicista concolor (Biichn); (3) Sicista lathemi 

 (Thomas); (4) Sicista flavus (True). It also follows that the 

 subfamily named Sminthinae must give place to Sicistinae. 



