ARVICOLA. 89 



b^. The post, upper m. does not terminate behind in a longi- 

 tudinal process, but is somewhat transversely elongated ; 

 thumb clawed and ears small. [=Sub-genus Paludicola]. 



/. The post, upper m. has three external angles and 

 the first lower m. four. A. blythi, p. 91. 



a^. The ant. upper m. has four angles inside and three out, the 

 2nd three inside and out; the ant. lower m. with normally 

 nine spaces ; thumb clawed ; ears projecting. 



[=Sub-genus Neodon]. A. sikimensis, p. 93. 



Sub-genus MYODES. 



Arvicola glareolus. 



Mus glafeolus, Schreber Saugeih.^ Atlas, pi. cxcb (1792). 



Mus rutilus, var. Pallas Nov. Spec. Quad, e Glir., p. 246 (1774). 



Arvicola fulvus, Millet H'aune de Maine et Loire (1828)*. 



Arvicola riparia, Yarrell, P. Z. S., p. 109 (1832). 



Lemnus rubidus, Baillon Mem. Soc. Abbeville (1830)*. 



Hypudacus hercynicus, Mehlis Isis, p. 874, pi. vii, fig. 8 (1831). 



Arvicola rufescens, Selys-Longchamps Campagnols de Liege, p. 13, pi. iv 



{1836). 

 Hypudius nageri, Schim Synops, Mamm., ii, p. 237 (1845). 

 Arvicola glareolus, Blasius Saugeth. Deutschl., p. 337 (1857); Blyth Cat. 



no. 408, p. 124. 

 Arvicola bicolor, Fatio Rev. Mag. Zool. (2), xiv, p. 257, pi. xii (1862). 



Distribution. — Central Europe from England to Russia. 



ac. 3 Skins, i skull France. A. Malherbe (1842), A.S.B 



d. Ale. and skull $ Norway. ChristianiaUniv.(i846), A.S.B. 



e-A. 4 Skins and England. Sir W.Jardine, A.S.B. 

 skulls. 



Sub-genus ALTICOLA. 



Arvicola stoliczkanus. 



Arvicola stoliczkanus, Blanford J. A. S. B., xliv, p. 107 (1875) ; '^' Ycirkand 

 Mamm., p. 42, pi. viii, fig. i, pi. xb, fig, 2 ; id. J. A. S. B., 1, p. 97. 



Distribution. — Only known from the two specimens mentioned 

 below from the Kuenlun mountains in Northern Ladak. 



a. Skin, skull Aktagh, Yarkand R., F. Stoliczka. 



I3-IO-73- 

 b. Skin. Nubra Valley Dr. Bellew. 



[Co-types of A. stoliczkanus, Blanford.] 



