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Show 1905.] MAMMALS FROM JAPAN. 353 fore-quarters; its colour rather redder than in E . glareolus, approaching " hazel " of Ridgway. Sides greyer. Belly washed with pale buff, not sharply defined laterally. Ears bright rufous. Upper surface of hands and feet pale brownish white. Tail of medium length, well-haired and tufted, dark brown above, dull white below, the terminal tuft black above, whitish below. Skull rather flatter than in E. glareolus, with a low weak muzzle and the frontal outline not so convex. Palatal foramina longer. Choante broad and low, their structure as usual. Molars with the same essential pattern as in E. glareolus, but they are peculiarly compressed from before backwards, so as to be unusually broad in proportion to their length, this proportion also being shown in the individual cement-spaces, which are broad transversely, short antero-posteriorly, and with their lateral angles (especially the outer above and the inner below) very sharp. Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh Head and body 104 mm. ; tail 34; hind foot 17 ; ear 11'5. Skull-tip of nasals to back of frontals 15• 5 ; nasals 6-7 x 2'9 ; height of muzzle behind incisors 3\5 ; interorbital breadth 3'8; palatilar length 10'4 ; diastema 7 ; palatal foramina 5 ; length of upper molar series (crowns) 4'7. Type. Adult female. B.M. No. 6.1.4.296. Original number 107. Collected 13 November, 1904. The occurrence of a typical Evotomys in Hokkaido was quite to be expected from the general character of the fauna of that island. 36. E v o t o m y s (C r a s e o m y s ) b e d f o r d l e Tlios. Evotomys bedfordice Thos. Abstr. P. Z. S. No. 23, p. 18, Dec. 5, 1905. <3. 22, 23, 24. $ . 25, 27. Shinshinotsu, near Sapporo, Hokkaido. Below 100'. S. 101,104, 106, 113, 114, 115, 116. ? . 105. Aoyama, Hokkaido. 200'. 11 On plains covered with tall grass and scattered alders." " In bamboo-grass." Size about as in the Scandinavian E. (C.) rufocanus Sund. Fur as in that species, long and loose; hairs of back about 10 mm. in length. General colour less contrasted red and grey than in rufocanus, the back darker chestnut, more E. glareolus-like, and the sides darker and less sharply contrasted grey. Under surface dull greyish washed with buffy. Crown rufous-chestnut, like the back. Ears inconspicuously reddish. Cheeks like sides. Upper surface of hands and feet dull greyish, the fingers whiter. A prominent glandular patch present in the male on each flank in front of the hip, rather further back than in E. rufocanus. Tail considerably longer than in rufocanus, less thickly haired, the rings of scales not hidden ; brown above, dull white below. Skull apparently very much as in E. rufocanus. It may be |