f far vest- Mice of the Pahearctic Rejion. 345 



until such time as specimens from the districts to which they 

 refer are avaihable. There can be no doubt that they all have 

 reference to harvest-mice. 



Mus campesfris, Desmarest, Mamm., Suppl. p. 543 (1822) 

 [giving- a name to the '' Mulot nain " of Geoff roy & 

 Cuvier]. 



"Mulot nain," Geof=fr. & Cuv. Mamm. xxxiii' & plate (Oct. 1§21). 



" Rat des Moissons," op. cit. l.\iv° (Nov. 18-30). 



3Im jmmilm, Geoft'r. & Cuv. op. cit. Tab. Gen. et ]M(5th. (1842). 



France. 



Mus minutus flavus, Kerr, Animal Kingd. p. '2^62 (1792). 

 " Inhabits Siberia " (see above). 



Mus soricinus, Hermann, Obs. Zool. i. p. 57 (1804). 



Neighbourhood of Strasburg. Is figured by Shaw (Gen. 

 Zool. iv. 1, p. 133) with a very shrew-like appearance. 



Mus pendulinus, Hermann, op. cit. p. 61 (1804). 



Germany. 

 Mus parvulus, Hermann, op. cit. p. 62 (1804). 



Strasburg, Germany. 



Mus pratensis, Ockshay, Nov. Acta Leopold.-CaroL, xv. 2, 

 p. 243 (1831). 



Western Hungary. The figure and description are those 

 of a harvest-mouse. This name antedates Mas armidinaceus 

 of Petenyi [vide infrh). 



Micromys agilts, Dehne, Hoflossnitz, p. 16 (1841). 

 Dresden, Germany. 



Mus meridionah's, Costa, Ann. dell' Accad. degl. Asp. Nat. 

 Nap. vol ii. p. 33 (1844). 



Naples, Italy. The description has been shown by 

 Dr. Forsyth Major (Atti Soc, Tosc. Sci. Nat. vol. iii. p. 129, 

 1884) to be based on a specimen of Mus mtnutus. 



Mus arundinaceus (Petenyi), Chyzer, Rel. Pet. Termes- 

 Fuzetek N., p. 91 (1881). 



15uda-Pesth and Western Hungary. The type lias been 

 lost, but Mr. Oldfield Thomas has been informed, in a letter 

 from Dr. .Julius Madarasz, that it was a harvest-mouse, a 

 conclusion to which I had already come in the ' Zoologist ' 

 for May 1896, p 181. 



