ARVICOLA. 8q 



y^. The post, upper m. does not terminate behind in a longi- 

 tudinal process, but is somewhat transversely elongated ; 

 thumb clawed and ears small. [=Sub-genus Paludicola]. 



f. The post, upper m. has three external angles and 

 the first lower m. four. A. blythi, p. 91. 



rt^. The ant. upper m. has four angles inside and three out, the 

 2nd three inside and out; the ant. lower m. with normally 

 nine spaces ; thumb clawed ; ears projecting. 



[=Sub-genus Neodon]. A. sikimensis, p. 93. 



Sub-genus MYODES. 



Arvicola glareolus. 



Mus glareolus, Schreber Saugeih., Atlas, pi. cxcb (1792). 



Mus rutilus, var. Pallas Nov. Spec. Quad, e Glir., p. 246 (1774). 



Arvicola fulvus, Millet haune de Maine et Loire (1828)*. 



Arvicola riparia, Yarrell, P. Z. S., p. 109 (1832). 



Lemnus rubidus, Baillon Mem. Soc. Abbeville (1830)*. 



Hypudacus hercynicus, Mehlis Isis, p. 874, pi. vii, fig. 8 (1831). 



Arvicola rufescens, Selys-Long champs Campagnols de Liege, p. 13, pi. iv 



(1836). 

 Hypudius nageri, Schins Synops. Mamm., ii, p. 237 (1845). 

 Arvicola glareolus, Blasius Sdugeth. Deutschl., p. 337(1857); Blyth Cat. 



no. 408, p. 124. 

 Arvicola bicolor, Fatio Rev. Mag. Zool. (2), xiv, p. 257, pi. xii (1862). 



Distrihution. — Central Europe from England to Russia. 



Sub-genus ALTICOLA. 



Arvicola stoliczkanus. 



Arvicola stoliczkanus, Blanford J. A. S. B., xliv, p. 107 (1875) I •''• Yarkand 

 Mamm., p. 42, pi. viii, fig. i, pi. xb, fig, 2; id. y. A. S. B., 1, p. 97. 



Distributio7i. — Only known from the two specimens mentioned 

 below from the Kuenlun mountains in Northern Ladak. 



a. Skin, skull Aktagh, Yarkand R., F. Stoliczka. 



13-10-73. 

 b. Skin. Nubra Valley Dr. Bellew. 



[Co-types of A. stoliczkanus, Blanford.] 



