ARVICOLA. 87 



q^. 2 Skulls Yarkand Exped. F. Stoliczka. 



r*. Ale. skull $ Sarikol, 4-4-74. F. Stoliczka. 



[With " y " a co-type of C. fulvus, Blanford.] 



s^-fi. 2 k\c. $ 2 F. Stoliczka. 



m". Ale. skull $ Quetta. Sir O. St. John, 



t^-^^, 5 Skins Giigit,4-78. J. Biddulph. 



Genus CRICETOMYS. 



Cricetomys, Waterhouse P, Z. S., p. 2 (1840). Type, C. gambianus. 



Cricetomys gambianus. 



Cricetomys gambianus, Waierkouse P. Z. S., p. 2 (1840) ; Thomas P. Z. S. 

 (1888;, p. 10. 



Distribution. — Western and Central Africa. 



a. Skin $ Gadda Monbattu, Brit. IVIus. [Ex.] 



C. Africa (Emin Pasha, 

 8-2-84.) 



Genus FIBER. 



Fiber G. Cwvier Tableau Gen. in Legon d'Anai. Comp,, 1st ed, (1800)*. 

 Type, F. zibethicus. 



Fiber zibethicus. 



Castor zibethicus, Linn<sus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 79 (1766). 



Fiber zibethicus, G. Cuvier Regne Anim., ist ed., i, p. 192 (1817); Blyth 



Cat. no. 405, p. 123 ; Coues Monographs N. Amer. Rodents, p. 254. 

 Ondatra zibethicus, Lesson Man. Mamm., p. 286 (1827). 



Distribution. — North America. 



a. Skin Huron Co. Ont., Canada. J. H, Gamier [Ex.] 



6. Skull Upton, Maine, U.S.A. W. Theobald. 



c. Skull Massachussetts, U.S.A. W. Theobald. 



d. StufJed N. America E. Ruppell (1855), A.S.B. 



Genus ARVICOLA. 



Microtus, Schrank Faun. Bote, i, p. 66 (1789)*. 

 Arvicola, Lacepede Tableau, p. 10 (1803)*. 

 Lemnus, Tiedemann Zool., i, p. 473 (1808). 

 Hypudseus, llliger Prodr., p. 87 (181 1). 

 Myodes, Pallas, Zoog. Ross. As., i, p. 172 (1831). 

 Brachyurus, Fischer Zoognosie, 3rd ed., viii, p. 55 (1814)*. 

 Phaiomys, Blyth J. A.S. B., xxxii, p. 89 (1863). Type, A. biythii. 

 Neodon, Hodgson Ann, Mag. N, H. (2), iii, p. 203 (1849). Type, A, 

 sikimensis. 



