352 MR, OLDFIELD THOMAS ON [ISToV. 28, 



Diinensions of one of Mr. Anderson's specimens, measured in 

 the flesh : — 



Head and body 59 mm. ; tail 55 ; hind foot 15 ; ear 7. 



Hah. Southern Hondo, and the islands of Shikoku and Kiushiu. 

 Type from Tosa, Kochi Ken, Shikoku. 



^y/ie. Adult male. B.M. No. 5.3.3.44. Collected 15 February, 

 1904, by R. Gordon Smith, Esq. 



The occurrence of the Harvest- Mouse in Japan was recorded 

 by Temminck. 



34. MiCBOTUS MONTEBELLI M.-Edw. 



Arvicola montehelli M.-Edw. Rech. Mamm, p. 285 (1874). 

 (Fusiyama.) 



Arvicola hatanedzumi Sasaki, Bull. Tokyo Coll. Agric. vi. p. 51 

 (1904). (Tokyo.) 



(? . 39. $ . 38, 43, 45, 46. Makado, near Nohechi, Aomori 

 Ken, IST. Hondo. 



S . 80, 84, 85, 86. $ . 81, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92. Morioka, 

 Iwate Ken, N. Hondo. 



c?. 151. 2 . 159. Nakaomi, nr. Ohito, Izu, S.E. Hondo. 



$ . 464, 467. Kawachi, Miyasaki Ken, Kiushiu. 1500'. 



The British Museum owes to the kindness of Prof. Sasaki 

 representative examples of the Vole described by him as Arvicola 

 hatanedzumi, and with these Mr. Anderson's specimens entirely 

 agree. But Pi-of . Sasaki's name is unfortunately antedated by 

 that given by Milne-Edw^ards in 1874, the type of which latter is 

 in the Paris Museum. 



This tyjje was carefully examined by Mr. Gerrit Miller during 

 his recent visit to Eui'ope, and on his later studying in London 

 the specimens of " hatanedzumi " from Tokyo, and a series from 

 Misaki sent home by Mr. Gordon Smith, he came to the conclusion 

 that all belonged to one species, a conclusion from which I see no 

 reason to diffei'. 



One (No. 80) of the twenty-three specimens has a supplementary 

 agrestis-\\kQ lobe on m", but does not differ from the rest in any 

 other respect. 



This Yole is evidently rare in Shikoku and Kiushiu, for 

 Mr. Anderson obtained no example of it in the former island and 

 only two in the latter. 



35. EvoTOMYS MIKADO Thos. 



Evotomys mikado Thos. Abstr. P. Z. S. No. 23, p. 19. Dec. 5, 

 1905. 



c? . 121. Noboribetsu, near Moruran, Hokkaido. 

 $ . 107. Aoyama, Hokkaido. 400'. Type. 



" Under moss-grown log in forest of alders and birches." 



A true Evotomys of medium size, similar in general appearance 

 to Danish examples of E. glareolus. 



Rufous dorsal ai'ea covering the whole top of the head and 

 breadth of the back fairly well defined laterally, especially on the 



