July 3x] BANGS — NEW AMERICAN MAMMALS 67 
1899 
extending very high up on sides; tail well haired, white below, yellowish white 
above, slightly darker — more grayish — toward tip, above; feet and hands 
white; ears large, nearly naked, pale grayish (probably nearly flesh color in 
life). 
Measurements—Type, & , old adult: total length, 317.; tail vertebra, 155.; 
hind foot (from dried skin), 31.5 mm. 
Skull, type: basal length, 37.2; occipitonasal length, 41.4; zygomatic 
width, 22.2; mastoid width, 16.6; interorbital width, 6.; length of nasals, 
16.2; length of upper tooth row, alveoli, 8.; length of single half of mandible, 
26. mm. 
Remarks.—Neotoma bella probably occurs with MW. intermedia 
gilva. Mr. Thurber took the latter at Whitewater, only a few miles 
from Palm Springs and in the same desert country. 
Mr. G. S. Miller, Jr., has most kindly compared my type with 
the type of WV. venusta True, and writes me that it is not that ani- 
mal, which is close to, if not identical with, WV. zvtermedia gilva. 
LV. bella can be told at once from WV. intermedia gilva by its 
smaller size and paler and quite different coloration. Its relation- 
ship to WV. Zepida is closer, but it is very different in color — much 
paler and less heavily marked above with dusky-tipped hairs ; 
the head, in particular, is much lighter, and the color of the under 
parts is different. The tail of 4. de//a is peculiar in being pale 
yellowish white above, not dusky as in WV. /epida. 
Peromyscus crinitus scitulus’ subsp. nov. 
Type, from Gardnerville, Douglas Co., Nevada, d adult, no. 9175, coll. of 
E. A. and O. Bangs, collected July 13, 1898, by W. W. Price and P. O. 
Simons. 
Subspecific characters.— Similar to true P. crinitus (Merriam) of the lava 
cafions of Snake River, Idaho, but much paler in color; tail shorter, not so 
hairy, and less blackish above. 
Color.— Upper parts drabby wood brown, slightly lined with darker— more 
dusky —hairs; lower sides and cheeks somewhat washed with ochraceous 
buff; under parts white, except anal region, which is ochraceous buff, and, in 
one or two specimens, an indistinct pectoral patch of the same color; tail 
very short (for a member of the evemscus group), rather hairy, though much 
less so than in true ?. er7z7tus, indistinctly bicolor, white below, grayish above, 
rather more dusky toward tip. 
1 Scettulus — graceful. 
