460 On new European Mammals. 



Pitymys atticus, sp. n. 



Type.— Adult female (skin and skull) . B.M. no. 8. 10. 2. 51. 



Collected at Kephissia, near Athens, Greece, June 30, 1908, 

 by Chas. Mottaz. Original number 6113. 



Characters. — Size much less than in Pitymys thomasi, 

 Barrett-Hamilton, the only other known Balkan form, and 

 about as in P. duodecimcostatus. Differs from the latter in 

 less projecting upper incisors, less obliquely truncate occiput, 

 shorter, broader, and deeper rostrum, relatively wider inter- 

 orbital region, and flatter, less inflated audital bulla?. 



Measurements. — Type. Head and body 95 mm.; tail 25; 

 hind foot (dry) 16 ; ear 8'2 ; zygomatic breadth of skull 14"6 ; 

 mandible 16*2 ; maxillary tooth-row (alveoli) 6*0 ; mandibular 

 tooth-row 6*2. 



Specimen examined. — The type. 



Apodemus sylvaticus creticus, subsp. n. 



Type.— Adult female (skin andskull). B.M. no. 5. 12.2.27. 

 Collected at Katharo, Crete, by Miss D. M. A. Bate. Original 

 number 27. 



Characters. — Size smaller than in the other Mediterranean 

 forms, essentially as in true sylvaticus ; colour pale and 

 yellowish (ground-colour above a clear, light, yellowish cream- 

 buff, without greyish tinge except occasionally on crown and 

 neck, scarcely different on sides away from line of demarca- 

 tion, where it becomes slightly more yellowish ; back heavily 

 " lined " with black ; underparts and feet white, the region 

 from interramia to base of tail dulled by the blackish-slate 

 under-colour) . 



Measurements. — Type. Head and body 88 mm.; tail 88; 

 hind foot 21 ; ear 17 ; condylo-basal length of skull 22*8 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 12'4 ; mandible 13*8; maxillary tooth- 

 row 3 - 8 ; mandibular tooth-row 3'6. Teeth well worn. 



Specimens examined. — Six, all from the island of Crete 

 (two from Kanea, the others from Katharo). 



Capreolus capreolus canus, subsp. n. 



Type.— Old male (skin and skull). B.M. no. 8. 7. 7. 28. 

 Collected at Quintanar de la Sierra, Burgos, Spain, during 

 the winter of 1907, by the Rev. Saturio Gonzalez. Original 

 number 2. 



Characters. — Colour of winter pelage greyish, as in C. ca- 

 preolus transsylvanicus, Matschie, but dark area more coarsely 



