836 RODKNTIA 



body, 112; tail, 120; hind foot, 24. For cranial measiu'ements 

 see Table, p. 835. 



Specimens exaynincd. — Twenty-two, from the following localities in 

 England : Riding, Mill-on-Tyne, Northumberland, 1 ; Graftonbury, Here- 

 fordshire, 13 ; Ledbury, Hereford, 1 ; Bishopstone, Hereford, .3 ; Hereford, 

 no exact locality, 1 ; Swithland, Leicestershire, 1 ; Oundle, Northampton- 

 shire, 1 ; Woolpit, Suifolk, 1 ; Balcombe, Sussex, 1. 



Eemarlis. — The British race of Apodpnnis flavicolUn, though 

 not a well marked form, seems worthy of recognition on account 

 of the duller colour of the underparts and the more diffuse 

 nature of the pectoral spot. 



6. Riding Mill - on - Tyne, Rev. H. H. Slater 11. 1. 3. 413. 



Northumberland, (c & p). 

 England. 



i. Graftonbury, Hereford- W. E. de Winton 0. 3. 12. 1. 



shire. (c & p). (Tyjx'oi subspecies.) 



4 <?, 6 9, Graftonbury, Hereford- W. E. de Winton (p)- 8. 10. 11. 1-12. 

 2 juv. shire. 



6, 9. Bishopstone, Hereford- H. N. Ridley (p). 85. 12. 29. 1-2. 

 shire. 



i. Bishopstone, Hereford- Rev. S. O. Ridley 81. 1. 1. 4. 



shire. (c & p). 



<5. Ledbury, Herefordshire. Col. J. W. Yerbury 11. 1. 3. 411. 



(c & p). 



5. Swithland, Leicestershire. F.A.Butler (c & p). 11.1.3.410. 

 9. Ouudle, Northampton- Lord Lilford (c & p). 11. 1. 1. 1G5. 



shire. 



6. Woolpit, Suffolk. W. D. Parker (c & p). 11. 1. 3. 412. 



APODEMUS AGRARIUS Pallas. 



1778. Mtis agrarivs Pallas, Nov. Sp. Quadr. Glir. Ord., p. 95 (Berlin, 



Germany). 

 1801. ilf[MS] agf[arius] albirostiis Bechstein, Gemeinn. Naturgesch. 



Deutschlands, i, 2d ed., p. 975 {Thviringen, Germany). 

 1801. Mills'] agr[arius] macxdatuH Bechstein, Gemeinn. Naturgesch. 



Deutschlands, i, 2d ed., p. 975 (Thiiringen, Germany). 

 1816. Mus rubens Oken, Lehrb. d. Naturgesch., iii, pt. ii, p. 898 (Northern 



Germany). 

 1857. Mus agrarius Blasius, Siiugethiere Deutschlands, p. 324. 

 1908. A[j)ode7]ms'] agrarius Thomas, Proc. Zool. See. London, 1908, p. 7, 



June, 1908. 

 1910. Mas (Apodcmus) agrarius Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d 'Europe, 



p. 155. 



Type locality. — Berlin, Germany. 



Geographical distribution. — Eastern and central Europe, west 

 along the Baltic coast to Denmark. 



Diagnosis. — Size and external appearance about as in 

 Apodemns syhaticus, but colour of ujaper parts more reddish, and 

 back with a narrow, sharply defined, black median stripe ; skull 

 with interorbital region conspicuously beaded, even in half-grown 

 individuals ; mcjlars of about the same size as in A. syh-aticus, 



