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fore-quarters; its colour rather redder than in #. glareolus, 
approaching “ hazel” of Ridgway. Sides greyer. Belly washed 
with pale buff, not sharply defined laterally. Ears bright rufous. 
Upper surface of hands and feet pale brownish white. Tail of 
medium length, well-haired and tufted, dark brown above, dull 
white below, the terminal tuft black above, whitish below. 
Skull rather flatter than in #. glareolus, with a low weak 
muzzle and the frontal outline not so convex. Palatal foramina 
longer. Choanze broad and low, their structure as usual. 
Molars with the same essential pattern asin /. glareolus, but 
they are peculiarly compressed from before backwards, so as to be 
unusually broad in proportion to their length, this proportion also 
being shown in the individual cement-spaces, which are broad 
transversely, short antero-posteriorly, and with their lateral 
angles (especially the outer above and the inner below) very 
sharp. 
Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh :— 
Head and body 104 mm.; tail 34; hind foot 17; ear 11:5. 
Skull—tip of nasals to back of frontals 15°5; nasals 6°7 x 2°9 ; 
height of muzzle behind incisors 3°5; interorbital breadth 3:8 ; 
palatilar length 10-4; diastema 7; palatal foramina 5; length of 
upper molar series (crowns) 4°7. 
Type. Adult female. B.M. No. 6.1.4.296. Original number 
107. Collected 13 November, 1904. 
The occurrence of a typical Hvotomys in Hokkaido was quite 
to be expected from the general character of the fauna of that 
island. 
36. Evoromys (CRASEOMYS) BEDFORDIH Thos. 
Evotomys bedfordie Thos. Abstr. P. Z. 8. No. 23, p. 18, Dee. 5, 
90 
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6. 22, 23, 24. 9. 25, 27. Shinshinotsu, near Sapporo, 
Hokkaido. Below 100’. 
SolOily MOA, MOG, Wile WW Is NGS Oe Oss owen, 
Hokkaido. 200’. 
‘On plains covered with tall grass and scattered alders.” 
‘Tn bamboo-grass.” 
Size about as in the Scandinavian #. (C.) rufocanus Sund. Fur 
as in that species, long and loose; hairs of back about 10 mm. in 
length. (General colour less contrasted red and grey than in r2fo- 
canus, the back darker chestnut, more /. glareolus-like, and the 
sides darker and less sharply contrasted grey. Under surface dull 
greyish washed with buffy. Crown rufous-chestnut, like the back. 
Kars inconspicuously reddish. Cheeks like sides. Upper surface 
of hands and feet dull greyish, the fingers whiter. A prominent 
glandular patch present in the male on each flank in front of the 
hip, rather further back than in #. rwfocanus. Tail considerably 
longer than in rwfocanus, less thickly haired, the rings of scales 
not hidden ; brown above, dull white below. 
Skull apparently very much as in Z. rufocanus. It may be 
