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f ove-quarters ; its colour rather redder than in E. 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 teiminal tuft black above, whitish below. 



Skull rather flatter than in E. glareolus, Avith a low weak 

 muzzle and the frontal outline not so convex. Palatal foramina 

 longer. Ohoanse broad and low, their structure as usual. 



Molars with the same essential pattern as in E. 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. 



Tyj^e. Adult female. B.M. No. 6.1.4.296. Original number 

 107. Collected 13 November, 1904. 



The occurrence of a typical Evotomys in Hokkaido was quite 

 to be expected from the general character of the fauna of that 

 island. 



36. Evotomys (Craseomys) bedfordi^ Thos. 



Evotomys hedfordice Thos. Abstr. P. Z. S. No. 23, p. 18, Dec. 5, 

 1905. 



S . 22, 23, 24. $. 25, 27. Shinshinotsu, near Sapporo, 

 Hokkaido. Below 100'. 



S. 101,104, 106, 113, 114, 115, 116. $. 105. Aoyama, 

 Hokkaido. 200'. 



" On plains covered with tall grass and scattered alders." 



" In bamboo -grass." 



Size about as in the Scandinavian E. {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 rufo- 

 canus, the back darker chestnut, more E. glareolus -like, and the 

 sides darker and less sharply contrasted grey. Under surface dull 

 greyish washed with buffy. Crown rufous-chestnut, like the back. 

 Ears inconspicviously 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 E. rufocanus. Tail considerably 

 longer than in rufocanus, less thickly haired, the rings of scales 

 not hidden ; brown above, dull white below. 



Skull apparently very much as in E. rufocanus. It may be 



