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RODENTIA 



Grisons, Switzerland : head and body, 92 and 93 ; tail, 90 and 

 70 (imperfect); hind foot, 19 '5 and 20 - 5; ear from meatus, 

 14 • 5. Adult from Padola, Cadore, Italy: head and body, 86; 

 tail, 86; hind foot, 19. 



Specimens examined. — Four, from the following localities : — 

 Switzebland : Vulpera-Tarasp, Grisons, 2 (Bothschild). 

 Italy : Padola, Cadore, 2 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.). 



Remarks. — At first sight this animal might be supposed to be 

 the young of Dyromys nitedula nitedula, but none of the three 

 specimens examined shows any indication of immaturity. 



1 al. Cadore, Venetian Alps, Dr. E. Festa (p). 9. 1. 18. 1. 

 Italy. 



Dyromys nitedtjIa wingei Nehring. 



1881. Eliomys dryas Winge, Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. i 

 Kjebenhavn, 1881, p. 50 (near Athens). Not Mils dryas Pallas. 



1902. Myoxus wingei Nehring, Sitz.-Ber. Gesellsch. Naturforsch. Freunde, 

 Berlin, p. 5 (Parnassus region, Greece). 



1910. Dyromys nitedula wingei Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 134. 



Type locality. — Parnassus region, Greece. 



Geographical distribution. — Known only from the type locality 

 and from the vicinity of Athens. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Dyromys nitedula nitedula but skull with 

 rostral portion less elongate, the distance from anterior root of 

 zygoma to tip of nasal less than 8 mm., and teeth weak ; upper pre- 

 molar with crown area decidedly more than half that of first molar. 



Colour. — The colour appears to be indistinguishable from that 

 of D. nitedula nitedula. 



Skull. — The only skulls examined are broken. While the 

 brain-case does not appear to differ from that of true D. nitedula, 

 the rostrum is shorter and weaker than in the allied species, 

 though not different in form. Auditory bullse apparently larger 

 than in D. n. nitedula, but the material is not sufficient to show 

 whether this character is constant. 



Teeth. — While resembling in all essential characters those of 

 D. n. nitedula the molars are distinctly less robust, particularly 

 the first and second. As a result the premolar is larger relatively 

 to the first molar, and the tooth-row as a whole is more nearly 

 parallel-sided, and with less broadening at middle. 



Measurements. — Two adult females from Tatoi, near Athens, 

 Greece : head and body, 80 and 93 ; tail, 80 and 86 ; hind foot, 

 20 and 18 • 8 ; ear from meatus, — and 12 • 4. 



Specimens examined. — Two, both from Tatoi, north of Athens, Greece. 



Remarks. — Though at present very imperfectly known the 

 Grecian Dyromys appears to be a well-characterized local form. 



2. Tatoi, Greece. (C. Mottaz.) Hon. N. C. Eoths- 8. 10. 2. 24-25. 



child (p). 



