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B. Mantle dull, diffuse, not conspicuously contrasted with flanks. 



a. Colour very pale; buffy-brown above. Tail short; skull 



•with braincase and buUse as in the typical form. 



E. r. shansehts Thomas. 

 Shansi, China. 



b. Colour dark; tail longer, usually about half length of head 



and body. Braincase long and narrow. 

 a^. Auditory bullfe large; palate wider. 



E. r. regulus Thomas. 

 Korea. 

 h'^. Auditory bullte small; palate narrower. 



E. r. smithii Thomas. 



22a. Evotomys rufocanus rufocanus Sundevall. 



1846. Ilypmlceus rufocanus Sundevall, Ofversigt af Kongl. Vetensk. 

 Akad. Forhandl., 3, p. 122. 



1847. Lemmus rufocanus Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, Daggdjuren, ed. 2, 

 p. 365. 



1874. Arvicola rufocanus Lilljeborg, Sver. og Norgcs Diiggdjiir, p. 292; 

 Poljakov, Mem. Imp. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg, 39, 1881, Append- 

 dix, p. 59. 



1884. Arvicola rufocanus var. Icamtschaticus Lataste, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Storia Nat. Genova, 20, 1884, p. 284; based upon Poljakov's 

 material from Kamtschatka preserved in the St. Petersburg 

 Museum. Not Arvicola kamtschalica Poljakov, 1881. 



1897. Evotomys rufocanus Bailey, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 11, 

 p. 122; Miller, Catal. Mamm. W. Europe, 1912, p. 648. 



1898. Microtis rufocanus Collett, Nyt. Mag. f. Naturw., 36, p. 280; 

 Kastchenko, onpenij. MJieKonHT. hboth. ToMCKaro Kpan. 

 ToMCK, Ta6ji. 44. 1900. 



1900. Evotomys {Craseoniys) rufocanus Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. 



Sci., 2, p. 87. 

 1903. Evotomys (Craseomys) latasiei Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. N.H., 



19, p. 145 ; Ten&mmg Arvicola rufocanus var. kamischaticus Lataste. 



1911. Euotomys rufocanus Collett, Norges Pattedyr, p. 96. 



1912. Evotomys {Craseomys) rufocanus latastei Thomas, Ann. Mag. 

 N.H., [8], 9, p. 397. 



1924. Evotomys (Craseomys) irkutensis Ognev, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow, 

 N.S., 31, p. 69; described from yryjiMK, ropbi XaMap-fla6aH, 

 Province of Irkutsk (type an adult female. No. 3909, Mus. Zool. 

 Univ. Moscow). 



1924. Craseomys rufocanus bargusinensis Turov, Comptes Rendus de 

 I'Acad. Sci. Russie, 1924, p. 110; described from the N.E. shore of 

 Lake Baikal. 



Type. — Stockholm Museum. 



Type locality.- — -Lappmark, Sweden. 



Range. — Northern Europe and Asia; in Europe southwards, 

 in the mountains of Norway, to Dovre; in Asia east to Kamt- 

 schatka and south to the Syansk Mountains, the shores of Lake 

 Baikal, and probably to the Kinghan Mountains in Northern 

 Mantchuria. 



Characters.- — Size slightly smaller ^ than in Far-Eastern 



^ Collett (Norges Pattedyr, 1911, p. 96) states, however, that the total 

 length rises to 160-170 mm. or more, of which the tail is 30-36 mm. or 



