194 Mr. G. S. Mil 



MUSCARDINUS. 



Altliough recorded from Andalucia by Machado and 

 Re^uera, and included in an anonymous list o£ rodents from 

 N.W. Spain *, this genus has, in fact, not yet been found in 

 the Peninsula. Graells rightly doubted its existence in 

 Spain, while Seabra does not record it in Portugal. All the 

 specimens I have seen in Spanish collections are from France, 

 Germany, or Italy. 



XXXI. — Eiqhtpen new European Voles. 

 By Gerrit S. jMiller. 



Among the European voles in the collection of the British 

 Museum are specimens of the following new foims. 



Evotomys ccesari'us, sp. n. 



Type. — Adult male (skin and skull). B.M. no. 3, 2. 11. 2. 

 Collected at St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, January 2, 

 1896, by Capt. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. Presented by 

 the collector. 



Characters. — A member of thenage7n group, agreeing with 

 E. skomerensi's in the presence of a well-defined third re- 

 entrant angle on inner side of third upper molar, but differing 

 from the Skomer vole in the shorter, more evenly cuneate 

 nasals (in this respect resembling E. nageri, E. vasconue, and 

 E. norvegicus), broader rostrum, shorter tail (-45 to 49 mm. 

 instead of 53 to 59 mm.), and much darker colour (upper- 

 parts a rich, dark reddish brown approaching the cinnamon- 

 rufous of Eidgway, but not so vivid, the sides lighter and 

 suffused with dull buff, though not sufficiently to produce any 

 marked contrast with back ; underparts a clear rich buff, 

 between the buff and cream-buff of Ridgway ; tail sharply 

 and conspicuously bicolor, blackish above, concolor with belly 

 below ; feet a dusky grey above, rather dark hair-brown on 

 furred portion of sole). 



Measurements. — Type. Headand body 96 mm. (97) f; tail49 

 (45) ; hind foot 18 (19) ; ear from meatus 11 (10). Skull : 



* The list, attributed to Senor J. Alonso Lopez by Seoane, is found in 

 a book entitled ' Consideraciones p:eiierales sobre varies puutos a favor de 

 la libertad y fomento de los pueblos,' 1820, vol. ii. p. 115, 



t Measurements in parentheses are those of a second specimen from 

 the type localitj {S ad., B.M. no. 3. 2. 11. 1). 



