998 



APPENDIX. 



Additional material shows the distinctness of the Sardinian 

 Grocidura mentioned on pp. 101 and 111-112. The animal has 

 been described as : — 



CROCIDURA ICHNUSiE Festa. 



1912. Crocidura ichmisx Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp., Torino, 

 XXVII, No. 648, p. 1, March 9, 1912. Type in Turin Museum. 



Ty2)e locality. — Piscina, Lanusei, Sardinia. 



Geographical distribution. — Sardinia. 



Characters. — Like Grocidura sicula, but unicuspid teeth both 

 above and below fully as large as in G. russula, and third upper 

 unicuspid more conspicuously exceeding second than in either of 

 the related species. Brain-case apparently as deep in proportion 

 to its width as in G. russula. 



Measurements. — ^Type (adult male) : head and body, 64 ; tail, 

 35; hind foot, 12. Average and extremes of five adults from 

 Ovile Seardu and Zinnigas : head and body, 65 '2 (60-69) ; tail, 

 36-8 (33-6-39); hind foot, 12 (11 •8-12-2). Immature female 

 from Assuni : head and body, 61 ; tail, 38; hind foot, 11-6. 

 Cranial measurements of type (teeth moderately worn), and of 

 immature female from Assuni (basal suture not closed, teeth not 

 worn): condylobasal length, 18 '8 and 18-6; zygomatic breadth, 

 6 - 2 and 6 - ; lachrymal breadth, 4 • and 4 - 2 ; breadth of 

 brain-case, 9 - 2 and 8 • 8 ; depth of brain-case (median), 4 • 8 and 

 4 - 6 ; mandible, 10*4 and 1 • ; maxillary tooth-row, 8 • 8 and 9 • ; 

 mandibular tooth-row, 8 • and 8 • 2. 



Specimens examined. — Seven, from the following localities in Sardinia: 

 Piscina, Lanusei, 1 (Turin; type); Ovile Seardu, 3 (Genoa); Zinnigas, 2 

 (Genoa) ; Assuni, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 



The cranial measurements of Evotomys glareolus norvegicus 

 were accidentally omitte*! from Table, pp. 652-653, and are as 

 follows : — 



