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mantle, the form of the auditory bullae and the structure of m^. 

 The differences for the most part are only of an average kind and 

 therefore are only ajjpreciable upon inspection of long series of 

 specimens. 



Very closely related to E. gap peri of N. America; the latter 

 indeed, and its numerous subspecies, might be treated as so many 

 geographical races of E. glareolus. 



2a. Evotomys glareolus glareolus Schreber. 



1780. Mus glareolus Schreber, Saugthiere, iv, p. 680, pi. cxc B. 



1792. 3Iits rulilus minor Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 237; described from 



Casan and Goettingen; based on Pallas, Glires, p. 247. 

 1792. Mus rulilus B minor Donndorff, Zool. Beytrage, 1, p. 452 



based on Pallas, Glires, p. 247. 

 1803. Lemmus arvalis Geoffrey, Catal. Mammif. du Mus. Nat 



d'Hist. Nat., p. 185; described from Meudon, Seine, France 



(Not Mus arvalis, Pallas, 1778.) 

 1828. Arvicola fulvus Millet, Faune de Maine-et-Loire, 2, p. 40 



described from Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. (Not Lemmus 



fulvus Geoffroy, 1803.) 

 1831. Hypudacus (misprint for Hypudmus) hercynicus Mehlis, Oken's 



Isis, 24, p. 876; described from the Harz Mountains, Germany 



[HypudcBUs and Hypudeus occur also in the same article]. 

 1834. Lemmus rubidus Baillon, Mem. Soc. Royale d'Emulation d' Abbe- 

 ville, 1833, p. 54; described from Abbeville, Somme, France. 

 1834. HypudcBus glareolus Melchior, Den Danske Stats og Norges 



Pattedyr, p. li6. 

 1836. Arvicola rufescens de Selys-Longchamps, Essai Monogr. sur les 



Campagnols des Environs de Liege, p. 13 ; described from Long- 



champs-sur-Geer, Belgium. 

 1842. Arvicola prafensis F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. des Mammif., 7, Tabl. 



Gen. et Meth. Described and figured in Livr. 68 of same work, 



1834, from Abbeville, Somme, France. 

 1857. Arvicola glareolus a. Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 337 



(in part.) 

 1896. Evotomys glareolus Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 12, p. 44. 

 1900. Evotomys hercynicus hercynicus Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. 



Sci., 2, p. "lOO (in part). 

 1900. Ei^otomys hercynicus rubidus Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. 



Sci., 2, p. 102. 

 1909. Evotomys glareolus Miller, Ann. Mag. N.H., [8], 3, p. 419; 



Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 170. 

 1912. Evotomys glareolus glareolus Miller, Catal. Mamm. W. Europe, 



p. 632. 



Type. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Island of Lolland, Denmark. 



Range. — West-Central Europe north of the Alps and Pyrenees 

 and south of the Baltic; from the Atlantic coast eastwards to 

 Silesia ; the north-eastern limit of range not known. 



Characters. — Size small (hind-foot 16-6-18 mm. ; condylo- 

 basal length of skull 23-24-6 mm.). Colour of upper parts 

 rather bright though dark-toned, the mantle broad and diffuse. 



