•^94 RODENTIA 



foward-curving re-entrant fold on inner side, the anterior outer 

 fold of m"^ shallower than the others and usually becoming 

 converted into an " island " at an early stage of wear ; ?«•' with 

 re-entrant fold on either or both sides ; lower molars each with 

 a forward-curving more anterior inner fold and a backward- 

 curving more posterior outer fold, the inner fold in m^ and 5J«2 with 

 a small supplemental l)asal backward fold which early becomes 

 isolated as a minute island lying near apex of outer fold ; all 

 the re-entrant folds in both maxillary and mandibular teeth are 

 transformed into islands as the wearing away of crown advances. 

 Measurements. — Type (adult male) : head and body, 230 ; 

 hind foot, 25 (hind foot with claws, 29). For cranial measure- 

 ments see Table, p. 896. 



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

 Bulgaria : Near Rustschuk, 6 skulls (Andersen). 

 Roumania: Malcoci, Dobrudscha, 3 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.). 

 S, ?. Malcoci, Dobrudscha, Rou- G. Dalgleish (c). 5. 10. 25. 1-2. 

 mania. 



SPALAX HUNGARICUS Nehrinsf. 



1898. 



Spalax typhlus hungariais Nehring, Sitz.-Ber. Gesellsch. Natur- 



forsch. Freunde, Berlin, for December 21, 1897, p. 173, fig. 3. 

 Spalax huiigaricus Nehring, Zool. Anzeiger, xxi, p. 479, 



September 5, 1898. 

 1898. ? Spialax monticola Nehring, Sitz.-Ber. Gesellsch. Naturforsch. 



Freunde, Berlin, p. 6 (Ulog-Obruja, Herzegovina). 

 Spalax huncjaricus and ? S. monticola Trouessart, Faune Mamm. 



d'Europe, pp. 203, 204. 



1898. 



1910. 



Tyye locality. — Hungary ; exact locality not stated. 

 Geographical distribution. — Hungary ; probably extending 

 southward into north-western portion of Balkan Peninsula. 



Fig. 185. 



Anterior base of zygoma in Spalax dolhroijex (a) 



and S. hungaricus (,b). Nat. size. 



