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Show 352 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON [Nov. 28, Dimensions of one of Mr. Anderson's specimens, measured in tlie flesh :- Head and body 59 mm.; tail 55 ; hind foot 15 ; ear 7. Hab. Southern Hondo, and the islands of Shikoku and Kiushiu. Type from Tosa, Kochi Ken, Shikoku. Type. Adult male. B.M. No. 5.3.3.44. Collected 15 February, 1904, by R. Gordon Smith, Esq. The occurrence of the Harvest-Mouse in Japan was recorded by Temminck. 34. M ic r o t u s m o n t e b e l l i M.-Edw. Arvicola montebelli M.-Edw. Rech. Mamin, p. 285 (1874). (Fusiyama.) Arvicola hatanedzumi Sasaki, Bull. Tokyo Coll. Agric. vi. p. 51 (1904). (Tokyo.) 8 . 39. 5 • 38, 43, 45, 46. Makado, near Nohechi, Aomori Ken, N. Hondo. d1. 80, 84, 85, 86. $ . 81, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92. Morioka, Iwate Ken, N. Hondo. 8 . 151. $ . 159. Nakaomi, nr. Ohito, Izu, S.E. Hondo. $ . 464, 467. Kawachi, Miyasaki Ken, Kiushiu. 1500'. The British Museum owes to the kindness of Prof. Sasaki representative examples of the Vole described by him as Arvicola hatanedzumi, and with these Mr. Anderson's specimens entirely agree. But Prof. Sasaki's name is unfortunately antedated by that given by Milne-Edwards in 1874, the type of which latter is in the Paris Museum. This type was carefully examined by Mr. Gerrit Miller during his recent visit to Europe, and on his later studying in London the specimens of " hatanedzumi " from Tokyo, and a series from Misaki sent home by Mr. Gordon Smith, he came to the conclusion that all belonged to one species, a conclusion from which I see no reason to differ. One (No. 80) of the twenty-three specimens has a supplementary agrestis-like lobe on m2, but does not differ from the rest in any other respect. This Vole is evidently rare in Shikoku and Kiushiu, for Mr. Anderson obtained no example of it in the former island and only two in the latter. 35. E v o t o m y s m ik a d o Thos. Evotomys mikado Thos. Abstr. P. Z. S. No. 23, p. 19. Dec. 5, 1905. 3 . 121. Noboribetsu, near Moruran, Hokkaido. $ . 107. Aoyama, Hokkaido. 400'. Type. " Under moss-grown log in forest of alders and birches." A true Evotomys of medium size, similar in general appearance to Danish examples of E. glareolus. Rufous dorsal area covering the whole top of the head and breadth of the back fairly well defined laterally, especially on the |