840 KODKNTIA 



MeasHvcmvuts. — Average and extremes of eight adults t'roin 

 Berlin, Germany: head and body, 08 "1 (97-112); tail, 78 "5 

 (73-84); hind foot, 19-2 (18-21); ear from meatus, 11-2 (11- 

 12). Average and extremes of live adults from the vicinity of 

 Konigsberg, Germany: head and body, 107*8 (99-115); tail, 

 76 •4^(71-84); hind foot, 19-1 (18 -6-19 -8). Adult male from 

 Bustenari, Roumania : head and body, 102 ; tail, 82 ; hind foot, 

 18 "5. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 839. 



Specimens examined. — Sixty, from the followiug localities : — 



Germany: Berlin, 9 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.) ; Herrenkrug, Magdeburg, 

 Saxony, 8 ; Altenburg, 1 ; Zoschau, Saxony, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Tausha, 

 Saxony, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Bieberstein, Saxonv, 1 ; Saxony, no exact locality, 2 

 (U.S.N.M.) ; vicinity of Konigsberg, 32 (UlS.N.M.). 



Austria-Hungary : Eszek, Slavouia, 1. 



Roumania : Bustenari, 1 ; Gageni, 2. 



Bulgaria : Rustschuk, 2 (Andersen). 



Memarhs. — This animal is immediately recognizable among 

 European Murid<e by the sharply defined black dorsal line, and 

 among the smaller members of the family by the noticeably 

 beaded margin to the interorbital portion of the skull. A similar 

 colour pattern occurs in the structurally very different Sicisfa 

 frizona, and as the ranges of the two animals partly coincide 

 confusion may easily result. Superficially Sicista irizona is 

 perhaps most readily distinguished from Apodemus agrarius by 

 the presence of the large, tufted lobe at base of inner portion 

 of ear capable of completely closing the meatus. 



3 6,0 9. Berlin, Germany. Dr. L. Heck (c & p). 7. 6. 12. 1-8. 



4 6. Herrenkrug, Magdeburg, Dr. W. Wolterstorfi 92. 12. 1. 10-17. 



4 ? al. Saxony. (c & p). 



9 Altenberg, Saxony. E. R. Alston (p). 79. 9. 25. 12. 

 (Moscliler.) 



1 al. Bieberstein, Saxony. Berlin Museum (e). 93. 1. 1. 18. 



(Nitsche.) 



1 al. Eszek, Slavonia, Hun- Budapest IMuseum 91. 7. 23. 1. 



gary. (e). 



6 Bustenari, Prahova, Rou- Lord Lilford (p). 1. 4. 6. 50. 

 mania. {W. Doclson.) 



6, ?. Gageni, Prahova, Rou- Lord Lilford (p). 4. 4. 6. 51-52. 

 mania. [W. Dodson.) 



? Purchased (Ver- 63.11.16.3. 



reaux). 



GexXUs MICROMYS Dehne. 



1841. Micromyi Dehne, Micromys agilis, ein neues Saugthier der Fauna 



von Dresden, p. 1. 

 1857. Mus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 309 (part). 

 1905. Micromys Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., xv, p. 442, 



May, 1905 (part). 



Tiii)e sjiecics. — Micromys ngilin Dehne = 3Ihs soricinus Her- 

 mann. 



GeoQnii)1i'ical distr'ihat'wn. — Central Europe and Asia from 



