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tion of the Old and New Worlds, and its presence in Kiushiu, 
but absence from Newfoundland, Greenland, and _ Iceland, 
suggest an Asiatic origin with dispersal to North America by 
an old land connection across Bering Sea. 
THE BANK MOUSE} 
EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS (Schreber). 
EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS BRITANNICUS? (Miller). 
1774. MUS GLAREOLUS (species), J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Saugthiere, iv., 680, pl. 
190 B; described from Laaland Island, Denmark. 
1831. HYPUDACUS (misprint for HyPUD#US) HERCYNICUS (species), E. Mehlis, 
Oken’s Jszs, viii., $76; described from the higher Harz Mountains, Germany 
(Hypup#&us and HyPpupDEvs occur also in the same article). 
1834. HyPUD#US GLAREOLUS (species), H. B. Melchior, Den danske Stats og Norges 
Pattedyr, 116; identifying Mus glareolus of Schreber. 

1832. ARVICOLA RIPARIA, William Yarrell, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 22nd May, 
109, and Loudon’s Mag. Nat. Hist., v., 1832, 599; described from Birchanger, 
Essex, England ; preoccupied by Arvicola riparius, Ord, 1825=Microtus pennsyl- 
vanicus (Ord) of North America ; Jenyns. 
1837. ARVICOLA PRATENSIS, Thomas Bell, History of British Quadrupeds, ed. i., 330 ; 
Boyd Dawkins and Sanford, British Pleistocene Mammalia, 1866, xiv and xxxvi 
(? part); Boyd Dawkins, “Distribution of the British Post-Glacial Mammals,” 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., xxv., 1869, 194 and 196 (? part); MacGillivray ; Owen 
(? part); Morris, Cat. Brit. Foss. ed. ii., 1854, 357 (? part); from F. Cuvier’s 
Hist. Nat. des Mammiféres, vii., Tab. Gen. et Méth., 1842 (described and figured in 
livr. 68, 1834)=£Z. glareolus (Schreber). 
1870. ARVICOLA GLAREOLUS, W. A. Sanford, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., xxvi., i. 124 
(? part) ; Blackmore and Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 16th June 1874, 461 
(? part) ; Alston, in Bell, ed. ii., 1874 ; Newton, Vertebrata of Forest Bed, 1882, 82, 
pl. xiv., fig. 1 (? part); Lydekker, Cat Foss. Mamm, Brit. Mus., \., 233, 1885 
(? part) ; Flower and Lydekker (? part) ; Harting, Zoologzst, 1887, 361, pl. v. 
1881. ? ARVICOLA (EVOTOMYS) GLAREOLA (part), E. T. Newton, Geol. Mag., June, 258. 
1890. MICROTUS GLAREOLUS (part), A. Smith Woodward and C. D. Sherborn, Caz. 
British Fossil Vertebrata, 365 ; Lydekker ; Aflalo. 
1898. EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS, Oldfield Thomas, Zoo/ogist, 101; Johnston; Miller, 
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, 1909, 419; Pycraft, British Museum Gutde to British 
Vertebrates ; Millais. 
1900. EVOTOMYS HERCYNICUS BRITTANICUS (sic), G. S. Miller, Proc. Wash. Acad. 
Sci., ii., 26th July, 103 ; described from Basingstoke, Hampshire. 
1903. EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS BRITANNICUS, G, E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Roy. 
Trish Acad., 11th May, 317; Miller (Catalogue). 
1910. EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS BRITANNICUS, E. L. Trouessart, Faune des Mammt- 
SJéres @ Europe, 170. 


1 Bank or Red Vole of authors. 
2 First spelt d7zt/anicus, but later corrected by the author to drttannicus. 
