1899.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 281 



THE VOLES COLLECTED BY DR. W. L. ABBOTT IN CENTRAL ASIA. 

 BY GEPvRIT g. MILLER, JR. 



During three recent expeditious in Central Asia, Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott collected fifty-four voles representing the following ten 

 species. These specimens form part of the large collection of 

 Asiatic mammals which he has presented to the United States 

 National Museum. I publish this paper here by permission of 

 the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Genus MICROTUS Schrank. 

 1798. Microtus Scbrauk, Fauna Boica, i, p. 72. Type by elimination 

 Mkrotus terrestris Schrank = J/«s arvalis Palla*. 



All of the voles collected by Dr. Abbott are membei-s of the 



genus Microtus. 



Subgenus PHAIOMYS Blyth. 

 1863. PMiomys Blyth, Joiini. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxxii, p. 89. Tj'pe 



Phaiomys h ucurus Blyth = Arvkola Mythi Blanford. 



The subgenus Phaiomys is represented in Dr. Abbott's collec- 

 tion by one species only. 



Microtus blythi Blanford. 



1863. Phaiomys leucurus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxxii, p. 



89. (Not Anicola leucurus Gerbe, 1862.) 

 1875. Arvicola blythi Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xliv, pt. ii, 



p. 107. 

 1891. Microtus blythi Blanford, Fauna of British India, Mammalia, p. 



432. 



Type locality. — Between Spiti and Pankong lake, eastern 

 Kashmir. 



Specimens collected by Dr. Abbott. — Thirty-four (twenty skins, 

 fourteen in formalin). The specimens were all taken in Ladak, 

 where Dr. Abbott found the species the most abundant vole, com- 

 mon on all grassy plains bordering lakes and streams between the 



