CITELIiUS 929 



Hii'schberg, Bohemia: head and body, 200 (195-215) ; tail, 6G 

 (60-73); hind foot, 36 "6 (35 "4-38 '4). Average and extremes 

 of six adults from Znaim, Milhren, Austria- Hungary : head and 

 body, 209-1 (200-220); tail, 63-7 (58-70); hind foot, 36-4 

 (35 "6-37). For cranial measvirements see Table, p. 930. 



Specimens examined. — Thirty-nine, from the following localities : — 



Adsteia-Hungary : Haida, Arva, Bohemia, 1 ; Hirschberg, Bohemia, 5 ; 

 Znaim, Miihren, 7 ; Csallokoz-Somorja, western Hungary, 4 ; central 

 Hungary, 1; Sarvar, Eisenburg, Hungary, 1 (U.S.N.M.); Monos Petrie, 

 Bihar, 2 ; Csehtelek, Bihar, 6. 



RouMANiA : Kustendje, 2 ; Dobrudscha, 3 (B.M., U.S.N.M. and Genoa) ; 

 Moldavia, 3. 



Budgabia: Bogoroff, Sofia, 1; Sofia, 2 (Andersen). 



Turkey: Ob-Meidan, 1. 



CITELLUS SUSLICA Gueldenstaedt. 



1770. Mus snslica Gueldenstaedt, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., 



XIV, pt. I, p. 389 (Voronezh, Russia). 

 1770. [Aliis citellus] var. guttatiis Pallas, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. 



Petrop., XIV, pt. I, p. 506, pi. 21, fig. 2 (Doubtfully a name). 

 1792. \_Arctomijs'] citellus & leucopictus Donndorif, Zool. Beytrjige, i, p. 486 



(Renaming of guttatus). 

 1845. Sp[ermophilus'] guttulatus Schinz. Synop. Mamm., ii, p. 70 (Renaming 



of guttatus). 

 1910. Citellus guttatus Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d' Europe, p. 128. 



Type locality. — Voronezh, Chernigof, Russia. 

 Geographical distribution. — Central Russia and eastern 

 Hungary. 



Diagnosis. — Slightly smaller than Citellus citellus, and tail 

 relatively shorter ; back marked with sharply defined whitish 

 spots about 4 mm. in diameter ; skull smaller than that of 

 C. citellus, the rostrum and palate narrower and incisiv{! foramina 

 much reduced in size. 



Colour. — Dorsal area from nape to base of tail a tawny russet 

 faintly clouded by blackish hair tips, and thickly spotted with 



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