MARMOTA 



937 



the enamel pattern ; premolar with a small hut e\ idcnt cinqulum 

 cusp on anterior hoi-der. 



Mcasiiremenis. -Adult male from Barceloiniette, Basses- Alpes, 

 Franco: head and body, 577 ; tail, 153 ; hind foot, 94 ; ear, 30. 

 Adult male and female from Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland : 

 head and body, 540 and 530 ; tail, 159 and 150 ; hind foot, 90 

 and 87. Two adult males from Grisons, Switzerland : head and 

 body, 503 and 530; tail, 130 and 160; hind foot, 90 and 95. 

 For cranial measurements see Table, p. 939. 



Sj^ecimens examined. — Forty-seven, from the following localities: — 



France: Near Barcelonnette, Basses-Alpes, 8 (B.j\I. and Mottaz). 



Switzerland : Salanfe (at foot of Dent du Midi), Valais, 1 (IMottaz) ; 

 Meiringen, Bern, 2 ; Engstlen Alp, Unterwalden, 1 ; Engelberg, Unter- 

 walden, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Schaufigg, Grisons, 3 ; Canton Grisons (no exact 

 locality), 4 (U.S.N.M.) ; Rheinwaldhorn, Grisons, 1. 



Italy : Vagna Valley, near Site. Rosa, Novara, 1 (Genoa) ; Aosta 

 Valley, Turin, 20 (Turin) : Argentera, Cuneo, 3 (Turin) ; Maritime Alps, 1 

 (Genoa). 



Austria-Hungary : Felkaerthal, Tatra IMountains, Hungary, 1. 



2(^,2 9. Barcelonnette, Basses-Alpes, 



France. (C. Mottaz.) 

 Skull. Meiringen, Bern, Switzer- 

 land. [Kocserman.) 

 1. Engelberg, Unterwalden. 



{Koeserman.) 

 S, 2 9. Schaufigg, Grisons. 



{Zollikofer.) 

 S. Rheinwaldhorn, Grisons. 



{Zollikofer.) 

 1. Felkaerthal, Tatra Moun- 

 tains ; Hungary. 



MARMOTA BOBAK Miiller. 



177G. Mus bobak P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. u. Regist. -Band, p. 40 



(Poland). 

 1778. Mils arctomys Pallas, Nov. Sp. Quadr. Glir. Ord., p. 75 (Poland). 

 1780. Arctomys hobac Schreber, Siiugethiere, pi. ccix (description, iv, 



p. 738, 1782). Renaming of Mus arctomys. 

 1811. Arctomys baibac Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., p. 155 (Poland). 

 1857. Arctomys bobac Blasius, Siiugethiere Deutschlands, p. 283. 

 1904. [Marinota] bobac Trouessart, Catal. IVIamm. Viv. Foss., Suppl., p. 343. 

 1910. Marmota bobac Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 129. 



Type locality. — Poland. 



Geographical distribution. — From Poland and eastern Hungary 

 (Galicia and Bukowina) eastward into Asia. Exact limits of 

 range not known. 



Diagnosis. — Size essentially as in Maniiota uiarmota ; colours 

 uniform, the entire animal a yellowish brown overlaid on upper 

 parts with black, the head slightly darker than body, without 

 contrasted pale muzzle or cheeks, the tail blackish at extreme tip 

 only ; skull relatively broader than in M. marmota, and post- 

 orbital processes standing so far back that their hinder border is 

 nearly over narrowest portion of postorbital constriction ; teeth 



