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The skull of the type measures : greatest length, 23.8; basal length, 22; 

 palatal length, 12.3; upper diastema, 6.6; zygomatic breadth, 13.5; mastoid 

 breadth, 11.6; interorbital constriction, 3.5; mandible from condyle to tip of 

 incisor, 16.5; alveoli of upper molar row, 6; alveoli of lower molar row, 5. 



Remarks: The type, as stated, came from Showlungtan, Hupeh. The 

 five other specimens are from the same Province: two from Fanghsien at alti- 

 tudes respectively of 7,600 and 9,000 feet; one from Wansonshan at 7,225 feet, 

 and the two others from the type locality, altitude not noted. It is doubtless 

 a boreal representative found at the higher altitudes, and is the most southern 

 species of its genus hitherto discovered in China. In its brown Microtus-like 

 coloration and its molar pattern with the simple structure and approach to 

 bilateral symmetry of the upper third molar, it seems to approach Evotomys 

 (Phaulomys) smithi of Thomas, from Hondo, Japan. It is quite unlike the 

 other described species of Craseomys from southeastern Asia the large-bodied, 

 richly colored C. regulus of Korea and North China, and the large pale C. shanseius 

 from the Province of Shansi. 



According to Anderson (1909) who has recently compared a large series of 

 Evotomys smithi there is much doubt if the subgenus Phaulomys, based on that 

 species, is really distinguishable. 



APODEMUS AGRARIUS NINGPOENSIS (Swinhoe). 



Thomas has recently shown that Apodemus antedates Micromys for the 

 small Mus-like species having three inner tubercles on the first and second upper 

 molars, and in his summary of the described forms of the agrarius group (Thomas, 

 1908b, p. 8) differentiates A. a. pallidior of the Shantung peninsula as a grayer 

 race than the more southern A. a. ningpo'ensis, in which, moreover, the dorsal 

 streak is usually obsolete. Mr. Zappey obtained a fine series of thirty skins 

 and skulls from Ichang and vicinity. These skins, although showing great 

 individual variation are probably best referred to ningpoensis, the type of which 

 came from Ningpo, on the coast, some six hundred miles to the west. All were 

 taken in December and January, 1908. In three the black dorsal line is splen- 

 didly marked from a point between the ears to the root of the tail, broad, clear, 

 and conspicuous. Three others have it nearly as well marked, but it begins 

 on the nape or between the shoulders. In four other skins, the stripe is still 

 well defined, but no longer clear black on account of a slight admixture of the 

 buffy hairs of the rest of the back. In the remaining twenty specimens the stripe 



