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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
sharp angles on each side ; the third also has three on each side, but those on the outer 
are weaker. . a 
In colouration this species resembles JL. russatus, Radde, 1 hut that is smaller, m 
proportionally longer tail, which is rusty red above, pale ochraceous below, and the teeth 
very different, resembling those of A. nMinduvinus^ A. Isucuvtt, Severtzoff, from M est 
Turkestan, is very differently coloured ; it is described as being asby ; the name must, 
already observed, be changed, as it is preoccupied. 
I find no details as to Arvicola stoliezkanus in Stoliczka’s notes. He merely menu® . 
finding a new JPhaiomys, — evidently this species,— at Aktagh. The specimen from the Nub 1 
valley rvas collected by Dr. Bellew. 
31. CniCETUS (CMCETTJLUS) PH^ETJS, Var. 
Mws jphaus, Pallas, Glires, pp. 74, 261, PI. XVa. 
Cricetus pluews, Pall., Zoog. Ros. As., i, p. 163. 
1, Sarikol ; 2, 3, Panjak, Waklian, — all skins. 
Although the specimens brought differ in some respects from those from Persia, s 1 ^ 
I think the differences are not much greater than those of Persian specimens between theJ» 
selves. The Yarkand and Pamir skins of this hamster have smaller cars than those collected 
Persia, and rather longer fur. But the most important distinction is, that in the former 
molar teeth are larger ; at the same time the form of the teeth is the same. 
The following dimensions are taken from the label of the specimen from Panjalx (1)- 
comparison I give the dimensions in inches of a Persian male, (2) taken on the body like tb° 
of the Waklian animal, and (3) Pallas’s original measurements 4 of a specimen probably f r ° 
near Astrakhan : — 
Length of head and body . 
Do. of head alone 
Do. of tail 
Do. of ear 
Do. of fore-foot with claws . 
Do. of hind-foot do. 
1* 
2$ 
3 
3-7 
4 
3-4 
1-08 
1-2 
1-17 
0-8 
1-25 
0-75 
0-68 
0-76 
0-5 
0-38 
0-4 
0-4 
0-68 
0-7 
0-6 
The length of the ears in the Pan j ah specimen is intermediate between the P elS . lfl (i , 
and Russian measurements. Erom the label of this specimen I take the follo^ 11 ^ 
additional details : — snout to eye 0'48, snout to ear 0'9, width of fore-foot 0'2, of hind- °^, 
the same, length of hair on the back 0'37, of the longer hairs tipped -black 0'7, widt ^ 
head at base of ears 0’55. Ears rounded, soles of feet white, snout flesh-coloured, iris hi ° A ' 
The colour varies from pure ashy grey to grey with an isabelline tinge, but the same ta 
place in Persian specimens. . 
Since the above was written, both this and the next species have been discovere 
Gilgit by Captain Biddulph, 
1 Eeise, i, p. 186, PI. VII, fig. 2. 
2 Rech. Mam., i, p. 131. 
3 Eastern Persia, ii, p. 58. 
4 Glires, p. 263. 
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