230 GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. [part iv. 



N. Australia; Cricetomys (1 sp.) Tropical Africa ; Saccostomus (2 

 sp.) Mozambique ; Cricetus (9 sp.) PaliTarctic region and Egypt ; 

 Cricctulus (1 sp., Milne-Edwards, 1870) Pekin ; Pscmlomys (1 sp.) 

 Australia ; Hapalotis (13 sp.) Australia ; Phlctorays (1 sp.) Philip- 

 pines; Platacanthomys {1 sp., Elytli, 1865) Malabar; Dendromys 

 (2 sp.) S. Africa ; Fesomys (1 pp. Peters, 1870) Madagascar ; 

 Steatomys (2 sp.) N. and S. Africa ; Pdomys (1 sp.) Mozambique ; 

 Reithrodon (9 sp.) K America, Lat. 29° to Mexico, and south to 

 Tierra del Fuego ; Acodon (1 sp.) Peru ; Myxomys (1 sp.) Guate- 

 mala ; Hesperomys (90 sp.) North and South America ; Holocliilus 

 (4 sp.) South America ; Oxymyderus (4 sp.) Brazil and La Plata ; 

 Ncotoma (6 sp.) U.S., East coast to California ; Sigmodon (2 sp.) 

 Southern United States ; Drymomys (I sp.) Peru ; Ncotomys (2 sp.) 

 S. America ; Otomys (6 sp.) S. and E. Africa ; Merioncs = Gerhillus 

 (20-30 sp.) Egypt, Central Asia, India, Africa; Bhomhomys (6 

 sp.) S. E. Europe, N. Afri3a, Central Asia ; Malacothrix (2 sp.) 

 South Africa ; Mystromys (1 sp ) South Africa ; Psammomys (I 

 sp.) Egypt ; Spalacomys (1 sp.) India ; Sminthus (1-3 sp.) East 

 Europe, Tartary, Siberia; Hydromys (5 sp.) Australia and Tas- 

 mania ; Hyjyogeomys (1 s-p., GvsindidieY, 1870) Madagascar; Pra- 

 chytarsomys (1 sp., Giinther, 1874) Madagascar; Fiber [2 sp.) N. 

 America to Mexico ; Arvicola (50 sp.) Europe to Asia Minor, 

 North Asia, Himalayas, Temp. N. America ; Cuniculus (1 sp.) 

 N. E. Europe, Siberia, Greenland, Arctic America; Myodes\i sp.) 

 Europe, Siberia, Arctic America, and Northern United States ; 

 Myospalax = Svphncus (2 sp.) Altai Mountains and N. China^; 

 Lophiomys (1 sp.) S. Arabia, and N. E. Africa; Eehiothric 

 (1 sp.) Australia. 



Extind Murida:. — Species of Mns, Cricdus, Arvicola, and 

 Myodcs, occur in the Post- Pliocene deposits of Europe ; Arvicola, 

 Merioncs, and the extinct genus Cricdodon, with some others, in 

 the Miocene. 



In North America, Fiber, Arvicola, and Neotoma, occur in caves ; 



^ Myospalax lias hitherto formed part of the next family, Spalacida3 ; but 

 a recent examination of its anatomy by j\L Milne-Edwards shows that it 

 belongs to the Murida?, and comes near Arvicola. 



