46 
SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
The following are the dimensions of a skull 
Total length ..... 
Breadth across zygomatic arches 
Do. between orbits .... 
Length of nasal hones 
Breadth of do. in front 
Length of upper molars taken together 
Distance from incisors to upper molars 
Length of lower jaw from condyle to symphysis 
Metre. 
Inches. 
■030 
1-17 
•016 
0-64 
•004 
0-16 
•012 
0-48 
•004 
0-16 
•0045 
018 
•0085 
0-34 
•0155 
0-6 
This species is little more than a large brownish form of C. phceus, hut it is so much l al ’» 
'tret 
that it ought, I think, to be distinguished. I obtained one specimen in Northern Persia 
whi^ 
agreed in size very fairly with C. fulvus.' There appears to he a regular gradation of close 1 
allied forms of grey hamsters, commencing with the little C. arenarim 2 and ending with 
large C. isabellinus, 3 which has the head and body 6 inches long without the tail. | 
The only difference I can see between the specimens from Yarkand and Kashghar, 3,1 
those from the Pamir, is the much longer fur which the latter possess, in consequence, l )|0 
bably, of the colder climate they inhabit. As already noticed under C. phceus, C. faj 0 
has been found again associated with its smaller relative, by Captain Biddulpli, in ’ 
south of the dividing range between the upper Oxus and the Indus, and within t 
territories of Kashmir. 
Prom C. ( Grice lulus) griseus 4 the present form is distinguished by its larger size 
longer tail, by its rather darker colouration (judging at least by the figure of C. gri sel ' 
and the absence of any dorsal hand, and by the very different disposition of the tubercles 
the soles of the feet. 
A species recently described by Severtzoff under the name of Cricetus murinus 6 is sal 
to resemble in appearance Arvicola arvalis, being dark greyish- brown above, ashy below ; 
length is 5 inches, of which the tail is H. This species is found in the Irtish and I^ 
rivers in South-Western Siberia. The species recorded by Severtzoff from Western Turkest a 
are C. songarus, C. acredula, and C. eversmanni. C. pheeus may very possibly occur also. 
an (1 
33. Nesokia BARCLAY an a. PL X a, fig. 1. 
(or A. blythiana, var.) 
Mns ( Nesokia ) harclayanus, Anderson, J. A, S. B., 1878, vol. xlvii, Pt. 2, p. 229. 
Nesokia indica, W. Blanf., J. A. S. B., 1875, xliv, Pt. 2, p. 108. 
to 
1-5, Srinagar, Kashmir. 
When examining the rodents of Dr. Stoliczka’s collection, I found it very difficult 
determine the species of Nesokia for want of examples. I have since obtained many S P® C * 
mens from various parts of India, and Dr. Anderson has recently examined the large coh c 
tion that has accumulated in the course of the last few years in the Indian Museum, witfi 
1 Eastern Persia, ii, p. 58. 
2 Pallas, Glires, p. 265. 
8 De Filippi, Viaggio in Persia, p. 344. 
8 A. Milne-Edwards, Reek. Mamm., i, p. 133, PL XII, XIII. 
1 Severtzoff, Turk. .lev., p. 82 : Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July 1876, Ser. 4, xviii, p. 54. 
