ARVICOLA. 87 



S^ 2 Skulls Yarkand Exped. F. Stoliczka. 



r\ Ale. skull ? Sarikol, 4-4-74. F. Stoliczka. 



[With " y " a co-type of C. fulvus, Blanford.] 



«»-<'. 2 Ale. S 9 F. Stoliczka. 



«'. Ale. skull 2 Quetta. Sir O. St. John. 



w°-s2. 5 Skins Gilgit, 4-78. J. Biddulph. 



Genus CRICETOMYS. 



Cricetomys, Waterhouse P. Z. S., p. 2 (1840). Type, C. gambianus. 



Cricetomys gambianus. 



Cricetomys gambianus, Walerhouse P. Z. S., p. 2 (1S40) ; Thomas P, Z. S. 

 (1888), p. 10. 



Disirihution. — Western and Central Africa. 



«. Skin ? Gadda Monbattu, Brit.Mus. [Ex.] 



C. Africa (Emin Pasha, 

 8-2-84.} 



Genus FIBER. 



Fiber G. Cuvier Tableau Gen, in Legon d'Anat, Comp,, 1st ed. (iScxj)*. 

 Type, F. zibethicus. 



Fiber zibethicus. 



Castor zibethicus, Linrusus Syst. Nat,, 12th ed., i, p. 79 (1766). 



Wiher z\heVn\cvis, G. Cuvier Regne Anim., ist ei., i, p. 192 (1817); Blyth 



Cat. no. 40s, p. 123 ; Coues Monographs N. Amer. Rodents, p. 254. 

 Ondatra zibethicus, Lesson Man. Mamm., p. 286 (1S27). 



Distribution. — North America. 



a. Skin Huron Co. Ont., Canada. J. H. Gamier [Ex ] 



b. Skull ^Jpton, Maine, U.S.A. W. Theobald. 



c. Skull Massachussetts, U.S.A. W. Theobald. 



d. Stuffed N. America E. Ruppell (1855), A.S.B. 



Genus ARVICOLA. 



Microtus, Schrank Faun. Boic, i, p. 66 (1789)*. 

 Arvicola, Lacepede Tableau, p. 10 {1803)*. 

 Lemnus, Tiedemann Zool., i, p. 473 (1808). 

 Hypudffius, Illiger Prodr., p. 87 (i8ii). 

 Myodes, Pallas, Zoog, Ross, As., i, p. 172 (1831). 

 Brachyurus, Fischer Zoognosie, 3rded., viii, p. 55 (1814)*. 

 Phaiomys, Blyth J. A.S. B., xxxii, p. 89 (1863). Type, A. blythii. 

 Neodon, Hodgson Ann. Mag, N, H, (2), iii, p. 203 (1849). Type, A. 

 sikimensis. 



