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in the Himalayan region will very likely show that its range 

 is much more extensive than is at present known. 



Genus: 11. DOLOMYS Nehring. 

 1851. Arvkola H. von Meyer, Neues Jahrb. f. Min., 1851, p. 679; 



J. S. Petenyi's hinterlassene Werke, 1, 1864, pp. 77 and 80 



(Hungarian). Not of Lacepede. 

 1894. Phfiiammys Nehring, Naturwiss. Wocheschr., No. 28, 1894. 



Not of Morriam. 

 1898. Dolomys Nehring, Zool. Anz., 21, p. 13; Forsyth Major, P.Z.S., 



1902, 1, p. 107; Mehely, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungar., 12, 1914, 



p. 178. 

 1914. Pliomys M6hely, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungar., 12, p. 195; geno- 

 type P. episcopalis Mehely. 

 1921. Chionomys Martino, Ann. Mag. N.H., [9J, 9, p. 413. Not of 



Miller. 

 1925. Dolomys Hinton, Proc. Linn. Soc. London, 1924-25, p. 36. 



Genotype. — Dolomys milleri Nehring. 



History. — The remains, upon which this genus is primarily 

 based, were discovered in 1847 by Petenyi in a bone breccia 

 fining fissures in limestone at Beremend in Southern Hungary. 

 The remarkable characters of these fossils escaped notice until 

 1879, when Nehring observed that the molar teeth were rooted, 

 and probably belonged to an undescribed genus ^ ; in 1894 

 he referred them, together with Newton's Arvicola {Evotomys) 

 intermedius from the late Pliocene of Britain, to Merriam's 

 North American genus Phenacomys. Two years later Miller 

 (N. Amer. Fauna, No. 12, 1896, pp. 40 and 75) pointed out that 

 the British fossils described by Newton are certainly not refer- 

 able to Phenacomys, and said that " there can be little doubt 

 that the animal represents a genus distinct from any now living." 

 In 1898 Nehring, supported upon the firm ground provided by 

 Miller's study of the living Microtine genera and subgenera, 

 described his genus Dolomys, which he based upon one of the 

 fossil species occurring at Beremend {D. milleri). In this genus 

 he included also the British fossils; but these latter were in 

 1902 referred by Forsyth Major to a new genus, Mimomys. 

 In 1914 Mehely gave a detailed account of those Hungarian 

 fossil voles in which the cheek-teeth are provided by roots. A 

 full review of Mehely's work is given in this monograph under 

 the " History " of Mimomys. Of the three new genera estab- 

 lished by Mehely one (Pliomys) must in my opinion be merged, 

 at all events for the present, in the synonymy of Dolomys ; while 

 another (Apistomys), described below, is scarcely entitled to 

 distinct generic rank. 



In 1921 Martino described a vole which he found living upon 



1 Nehring, Jahrb. d. k.k. geolog. Reichsanstalt in Wien, 1879, p. 492. 



