190 Seuov A. Cabrera on 



alcoholic specimens of quercinus ; wliile as regards siz^, 

 " smaller " or ^' larger," without detailed measurements nor 

 indication of the age of specimens, are words of little scientific 

 value. As for the absence of black on the ventral surface of 

 the tail, this is characteristic of E. quercinus^ but there are 

 specimens of lusitanicus that also lack the black central 

 portion ; the co-type of this species in the British Museum, 

 Mr. Miller writes me, " is just one of these unusual specimens 

 without black on underside of tail " ; and I have seen several 

 dormice from different Andalucian localities, evidently of the 

 large red form, with the tail entirely white below. 



Graells's description and figure being not sufficiently accu- 

 rate for purposes of identification, I asked Professor Coscol- 

 lano, of Cordoba Institute, for information, and from him I 

 learn that the Cordoban Elioviys is the same animal as that 

 from Seville. A specimen in the Institute collection has the 

 upper parts of the body brownish red and the underside of the 

 tail white, with a blackish centre. Moreover, Graells said the 

 types of amori were in his possession, and the only Eliomys 

 in the Graells collection, now in the Madrid Museum, is a 

 specimen of E. lusitanicus, without Mack on the ventral side of 

 tail. It bears no indication of locality or collector, but I 

 think it may be regarded as one of the co-types. Mr. Oldfield 

 Thomas was therefore correct in applying the name amori to 

 the Andalucian form when its identity with E. lusitanicus 

 was not yet suspected. It is noteworthy that the two names 

 given to this animal were based on specimens with the tail 

 unusually coloured. 



Barrett-Hamilton's "Eliomys mu'mbyanus, Pomel." — Based 

 on a skull from Cabanas, Coruna province, N.W. Spain, in 

 the British Museum. The skull of true mumhyanus being 

 quite similar in form to that of quercinus, the only reason 

 that led Barrett-Hamilton to regard this specimen as of the 

 Pomel form was undoubtedly its small size ; but, as he 

 compared mumhyanus not with true quercinus, but with 

 specimens from Seville {E. lusitanicus), that reasonhas very 

 little force. In my opinion, the Cabaiias skull is one of 

 E. quercinus, perhaps not quite adult. 



E. munihyanus from North Africa seems to me merely a 

 diminutive race of E. quercinus. Specimens from Mogador 

 are identical in colour and skull- features with quercinus from 

 the French Pyrenees, but rather smaller. 



Eliomys hortualis, Cabrera *.— Type locality : Valencia, 

 * L. c. 1904, p. 183. 



