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1906. Ncomys fodiens nanus Lydekker, Zoological Record, xlii (1905), 

 Mamm., p. 34, August, 190C (Accidental renaming of naias). 



1910. Neornys fodiens, N. fodiens naias and N. fodiens minor Trouessart, 

 Paune l\Iamm. d'Europe, pp. 56, 57. 



Type localiti/. — Berlin, Germany. 



Oeographical distribution. — Continental Europe from Norway 

 to Italy and the Pyrenees. 



Diagnosis. — Underparts buify whitish, occasionally tinged with 

 a stronger shade of yellow or suffused with salmon-colour, and 

 sometimes though rarely washed with wood-brown, especially on 

 chest and along median line of belly. Condylobasal length of 

 skull usually more than 21 mm. 



Measurements. — Average and extremes of ten specimens from 

 Brunswick, Germany : head and body, 86 • 6 (83-92) ; tail, 65 " 5 

 (58-77)] hind foot, IS '5 (17-19). Average of three specimens 

 from Montrejeau, Haute-Garonne, France : * head and body, 83 

 (82-85); tail, 52 (-50-60); hind foot, 17-1 (16-18). Average 

 and extremes of seven specimens from Luchon, Haute-Garonne, 

 France: head and body, 75*7 (72-80) ; tail, 53-1 (47-58) ; hind 

 foot, 16 '4 (16-17). Average and extremes of five specimens 

 from Porte, Pyrenees-Orientales, France : head and body, 93 

 (83-96) ; tail, 6''l (57-65) ; hind foot, 18-2(18-19). Average and 

 extremes of nine specimens from Meiringen, Bern, Switzerland : 

 head and body, 82-7 (80-86); tail, 66"- 2 (62-71); hind foot, 

 19 "3 (18—20). Average and extremes of ten specimens from 

 Hatszeg, Hunj^ad, Transylvania : f head and body, 77 • 7 (72-82) ; 

 tail, 60 (56-66) ; hind foot, 18-5 (18-19). For cranial measure- 

 ments see Table, p. 75. 



Specimens examined. — One hundred and thirty-four, from the following 

 localities: — 



Norway: Vefsen, Nordland, 1; Kvikne, Hedemarken, 1; Brekke- 

 bygden, Trondhjem, 1. 



Sweden : Bothnia, 1 ; Upland, 1 ; Medstugan, Jemtland, 1 ; Upsala, 1 

 (U.S.N.M.) ; no exact locality, 1. 



Belgium: Waremme, Liege, 3 (U.S.N.M.). 



France : Guines, Pas-de-Calais, 2 ; Abbeville, Soiime, 2 (B.!M. and Paris ; 

 the latter type of remifer Geoffrey) ; near Paris, 1 (Paris; type of lineatus 

 Gooffroy) ; Dinan, C6tes-du-Nord, 1 ; Cadillac-sur-Garonne, Gironde, 2 

 (U.S.N.M.); Montrejeau, Haute-Garonne, 3 (U.S.N.M.); Porte, Pyrenees- 

 Orientales, 5 ; I'Hospitalet, Ariege, 2; Luchon, Haute-Garonne, 7 ; liareges, 

 Hautes-Pyrenees, 3 ; Barcelounette, Basses-Alpes, 1 ; Charaonix, Haute- 

 Savoie, 1 (U.S.N.il.) ; Cranves-Sales, Haute-Savoie, 1 : Scientrier, Haute- 

 Savoie, 1 (Mottaz) ; fitupes, Doubs, 6 (Mottaz) ; no exact locality, 1. 



Germany : Brunswick, 10 (U.S.N.M.) ; Saxony, no exact locality, 1 

 (U.S.N.:\r.); Bahrenberg, Harz Mts., 1 (U.S.N.M.): Frankfort, Wies- 

 baden, 1 ; Niesky, Silesia, 1 : Strassburg, 1. 



Austria-Hungary : Haida, Arva, Bohemia, 3 ; Hatszeg, Hunyad, 

 Transylvania, 11. 



Switzerland : Geneva, 4 (Mottaz) ; Chesieres, Vaud, 4 (Mottaz) ; Les 

 Plans, Vaud, 3 (U.S.N.M.) ; Meiringen, Bern, 9 (U.S.N.:M.) ; GrindelwrJd, 



* " Neomys fodiens minor ^' Miller. 



t " Ncomys fodiens naias" Barrett-Hamilton. 



