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  RANKLE. 
  

  

  from 
  the 
  Italian 
  peninsula, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  

   Adriatic 
  it 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  recorded 
  from 
  further 
  south 
  

   than 
  the 
  mountains 
  of 
  Bosnia. 
  In 
  Transylvania 
  its 
  

   occurrence 
  is 
  restricted 
  to 
  the 
  hills 
  and 
  mountains, 
  

   its 
  place 
  being 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  plains 
  by 
  S. 
  arvalis 
  and 
  

   B. 
  agilis. 
  It 
  is 
  found 
  not 
  only 
  all 
  over 
  Great 
  Britain, 
  

   but 
  also 
  in 
  Ireland, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  much 
  more 
  common 
  

   on 
  the 
  west 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  coast, 
  and 
  flourishes 
  in 
  

   the 
  mountains. 
  Its 
  range 
  in 
  Asia 
  is 
  an 
  extensive 
  one, 
  

   stretching 
  from 
  the 
  northern 
  and 
  middle 
  Oural 
  and 
  

   the 
  Kirghiz 
  steppes 
  to 
  the 
  Stannovoi 
  Mountains, 
  

   Sachalien 
  Island, 
  Mongolia, 
  Manchuria, 
  and 
  Yesso, 
  

   being 
  replaced 
  further 
  south 
  in 
  Eastern 
  Asia 
  by 
  Sana 
  

   amurensis, 
  B. 
  martensii, 
  and 
  B. 
  japonica. 
  

  

  The 
  male 
  and 
  two 
  females 
  figured 
  on 
  PL 
  XX 
  are 
  

   from 
  the 
  environs 
  of 
  London, 
  and 
  give 
  some 
  idea 
  of 
  

   the 
  great 
  amount 
  of 
  individual 
  variation 
  in 
  coloration 
  

   to 
  be 
  observed 
  in 
  this 
  species. 
  Other 
  variations 
  in 
  the 
  

   markings 
  are 
  represented 
  on 
  PI. 
  XXI. 
  Fig. 
  1 
  repre- 
  

   sents 
  a 
  male 
  from 
  Dunphail, 
  Morayshire, 
  presented 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  R. 
  Ogilvie 
  Grant, 
  remarkable 
  for 
  its 
  

   unusually 
  short 
  snout 
  and 
  its 
  well-marked 
  light 
  

   vertebral 
  stripe, 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  so-called 
  var. 
  

   striata 
  of 
  Sana 
  arvalis. 
  Fig. 
  2 
  is 
  taken 
  from 
  a 
  young* 
  

   specimen 
  from 
  Hanover, 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  

   J. 
  E. 
  Gray. 
  Fig. 
  3 
  from 
  a 
  female 
  with 
  remarkably 
  

   pointed 
  snout, 
  sent 
  from 
  Breslau 
  by 
  Prof. 
  G. 
  Born 
  ; 
  

   a 
  var. 
  acutirostris, 
  Fatio, 
  has 
  been 
  founded 
  ou 
  such 
  

   specimens, 
  which 
  appear 
  to 
  have 
  occasionally 
  given 
  

   rise 
  to 
  erroneous 
  reports 
  on 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  B. 
  agilis 
  

   in 
  Germany. 
  Fig. 
  4 
  from 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  Seoane's 
  

   var. 
  parvvpalmata 
  from 
  Galicia, 
  Spain. 
  

  

  