8")4 RODENTIA 



hind foot, 36 ; ear, 2;").* Adult female from Hatszeg, Hnn3'ad, 

 Austria-Hungary : head and body, 190 ; tail, 225 ; hind foot, ."nS. 

 For cranial measurements see Table, p. 856. 



Specimens examined. — Twenty, from the following localities : — 

 Scotland : South Eonaldshay, Orkney Islands, 5 (Edinburgh). 

 England : Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1 ; Tring, Hertfordshire, 1 ; 

 London, 6 (including type of ater Millais) ; Lundy Island, Devonshire, 2. 

 France: Sark, Channel Islands, 1. 

 Switzerland : No exact locality, 1. 

 Austria-Hungary: Hatszeg, Hunyad, 2. 

 Portugal : San Miguel, Azores, 1. 



(5 St. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, W. R. Butterfield 4.1.22.1. 



England. (c & p). 



9 St. Tring, Hertfordshire. Hon. N. C. Roths- 1. 5. 22. 8. 



child (c & p). 



2 St. London. A. Stedall (c & p). 



<5, lal. London. C. J. Wilson (c & p). 86. 4. 5. 1-2. 



St. London. E. Bidwell (c & p). 2. 4. 4. 1. 



6. London. J. G. Millais (p). 5. 7. 28. 1. 



(Type of afcr Millais.) 



2 6. Lundy Island, Devonshire. T. A. Coward (c & p). 7.12.19.1-2. 



9. Switzerland. (Nager.) E. R. Alston (p). 79. 9. 25. 40. 



6,9. Hatszeg, Hunyad, Tran- C. G. Danford (c). .8.2.2.22-24. 

 sylvania. 



6. San Miguel, Azores. Hon. W. Rothschild 3. G. 5. 15. 

 (W. B. 0. Grant.) (p). 



Epimys rattus alexandrinus Geoffroy. 



180-3. Mus alexandrimis Geoffroy, Catal. IMammif. du Mus. Nat. d'Hist. 



Nat., Paris, p. 192 (Egypt). 

 1814. Miiscnliis fritgivorus Rafinesque, Precis des Ducouv. et Travaux 



Somiologiques, p. 13 (Sicily). 

 1825. Miis tectorum Savi, Nuovo Giorn. de' Lettcrati, Pisa, x, p. 74 (Pisa, 



Italy). 

 1827. Myoxus siculn: Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 274 (Substitute for 



Musculus frugivorus Rafinesque). 

 1841. Miis sylvestris Pictet, ]Mem. Soc. Phys. et d'Hist. Nat., Geneve, ix, 



p. 153 (Near Geneva, Switzerland). Alternative for Icncogastcr. 

 1841. Mus leucogaster Pictet, jNIem. Soc. Phys. et d'Hist. Nat., Geneve, ix, 



p. 154 (Near Geneva, Switzerland). 

 1841. [Mils'] nemoralis de Selys-Longchamps, Atti della secouda Riunione 



degli Scienziati Italian!, Torino, 1840, p. 247 (Near Geneva, 



Switzerland). Accidental substitute for sylvestris Pictet. 

 1845. Mus picieti Schinz, Synops. Mamm., ii, p. 142 (Substitute for leuco- 

 gaster Pictet). 

 1857. Mus alexandrinus Blasius, Siiugethiere Deutschlands, p. 316. 

 1882. [Mils 7-atttis] intei'mcditis Ninni, Atti del reale Inst. Veneto, 5th ser., 



VII, p. 574 (Venice, Italy). 

 1910. Mus [Epimys) rattus intermedius and M. (E.) rattus alexandrinus 



Trouessart, Faune IMamm. d'Europe, pp. 143, 144. 



Tifpe locality. — Alexandria, Egypt. 



(Tt'oi/raphical disfrihution. — Mediterranean region ; eveiy where 

 aljundant and not tending to be replaced by Epltinix norv^gicus. 



* From Millais. 



