840 EODENTIA 



Measurements. — Average and extremes of eight adults from 

 Berlin, Germany: head and body, 08 "1 (97-112); tail, 78 • 5 

 (73-84); hind foot, 19-2 (18-21); ear from meatus, 11-2 (11- 

 12). Average and extremes of live adults from the vicinity of 

 Konigsberg, Germany: head and body, 107 "8 (99-115); tail, 

 76-4 (71-84); hind foot, 19-1 (18-6-19-8). Adult male from 

 Bustenari, Roumania : head and body, 102; tail, 82; hind foot, 

 18-5. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 839. 



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



Gehmany : Berlin, 9 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.) ; Herrenkrug, Magdeburg, 

 Saxony, 8; Altenburg, 1; Zoschau, ■ Saxony, 1 (U.S.N.M.); Tausha, 

 Saxony, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Bieberstein, Saxony, 1 ; Saxony, no exact locality, 2 

 (U.S.N.M.) ; vicinity of Konigsberg, 32 (U.S.N.M.). 



Austkia-Hungary : Eszek, Slavonia, 1. 



Roumania : Bustenari, 1 ; Gageni, 2. 



Bulgaria : Rustschuk, 2 (Andersen). 



^Remarks. — This animal is immediately recognizable among 

 European Muridse by the sharply defined black dorsal line, and 

 among the smaller members of the family by the noticeably 

 beaded margin to the interorbital portion of the skull. A similar 

 colour pattern occurs in the structurally very different Sicista 

 trizona, and as the ranges of the two animals partly coincide 

 confusion may easily result. Superficially Sicista trizona is 

 perhaps most readily distinguished from Apodemus agrarius by 

 the presence of the large, tufted lobe at base of inner portion 

 of ear capable of completely closing the meatus. 



3 (J, 5 9. Berlin, Germany. Dr. L. Heck (c & p). 7. 6. 12. 1-8. 



4<J. Herrenkrug, Magdeburg, Dr.W. Wolterstorfi 92.12.1.10-17. 



4 9 al. Saxony. (c & p). 



9 Altenberg, Saxony. E. R. Alston (p). 79. 9. 25. 42. 

 (Moschler.) 



1 al. Bieberstein, Saxony. Berlin Museum (e). 93. 1. 1. 18. 



(Nitsche.) 



1 al. Eszek, Slavonia, Hun- Budapest Museum 94. 7. 23. 1. 



gary. (e). 



6 Bustenari, Prahova, Bou- Lord Lilford (p). 4. 4. 6. 50. 

 mania. (W. Dodson.) 



6,9. Gageni, Prahova, Bou- Lord Lilford (p). 4.4.6.51-52. 



mania. (W. Dodson.) 



Purchased (Ver- 63.11.16.3. 

 reaux) . 



Genus MICROMYS Dehne. 



1841. Micromyi Dehne, Mioromys agilis, ein neues Saugthier der Pauna 



von Dresden, p. 1. 

 1857. Mus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 309 (part). 

 1905. Micromys Thomas, Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., xv, p. 442, 



May, 1905 (part). 



Type species. — Micromys agilis Dehne = Mus soricinus Her- 

 mann. 



Geographical distribution. — Central Europe and Asia from 



