94 MAMMALIA 



Distribution. — Scandinavia. 

 a-b. 2 Stuffed Norway Christiania University, A.S.B, 



Genus ELLOBIUS. 



Ellobius, Fischer Zoognosia, iii, p 72 (1814)*. Type, E. talpinus. 

 Myospalax, Blyth J. A. S. B., xv, p. 141 (1846). Type, E. fuscocapillus. 



Ellobius fuscocapillus. 



Georychus fuscocapillus, Blyth, J. A. S. B., x, p. 928 (1841) ; id. J. A. S. 



B, xi, p. 887. 

 Myospalax fuscocapillus, Blyth J. A. S. B., xv, p. 141 (1846) ; id. Cat. 



no. 414, p. 126. 

 Ellobius fuscocapillus, Blanford J. A. S. B., 1, p. 1 19, pi. ii, fig. d (1881) ; 



Thomas Linn. Trans. (2), v, p. 59. 

 Ellobius intermedius, Scully, J. A. S. B., Ivi, p. 73 (1887). 



The Quetta Mole. 



Distributio7i. — Afghanistan, has been obtained from various 

 places in Afghan-Turlcistan and from Quetta. 



Thomas, after ex training the Afghan boundary specimens of 

 Ellobius, has come to the conclusion that the characters whereby 

 it was distinguished as a separate species by Scully do not hold 

 good when a considerable number of specimens are examined ; 

 E. intermedius has therefore been merged with E. fuscocapillus. 



Besides the original type of the genus, E. talpinus, a second 

 Central Asiatic species has recently been described, Ellobius tancrei 

 from the Altai by Blasius (Zool. Anz., vii, p. 197). 



ad, 4 Skins, Quetta T. Hutton (1846), A.S.B. 



I skull. 

 e. Skin, skull ? Killa.Wali, Herat, 5-86 C. E. Yate. 



[Type of Ellobius intermedius, Scully.] 



/. Skin, skull ^ Kiila Wali, Herat, 5-86 C. E. Yate. 

 g. Skin $ Bokum, Herat, 5-86 C. E. Yate. 



h. Ale, $ Galran, Herat J. E. T. Aichison. 



Genus SPA LAX. 



Spalax, Guldenstadt Nov, Comm. Acad. Petrop., xiv, pt. i, p. 409 (1770). 



Spalax typhlus. 



Mus typhlus, Pallas Nov. Sp. Quad, e Glir., p. 154 (1778). 



Spalax microphthalmos, Guldenstadt Nov. Comm. Acad. Petrop,, xiv, pt. i, 



p. 411 (1770). 

 Spalax pallasii, Nordmann Bull. Acad., St. Peters, v, p. 200 (1835).* 



