Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 24. (Budapest 1926)
Éhik, Gy.: Magyarország földipockai
Remarks: I figured the ratio of the depth of the braincase to the occipital breadth in my original description out of the palatinal depth of the braincase (together with the bulla), and it was this way that I got a value corresponding to 707«. According to the measuring method lately elaborated, the depth of the braincase is only 66% of the occipital breadth! 4. Pitymys dacius hungaricus n. subsp. Type locality; Budafok, near Budapest. Data: Hung. Nat. Museum No. 3413. 1921, III, 31. (leg. J. BARTKÓ.) Paratype: Hung. Nat. Museum No. 2939. 1921, III, 31. (leg. J. BARTKÓ.) Description: The new subspecies is somewhat larger than the stock species, ist tail is remarkably longer (stock species 32*5, subspecies 36 mm) a£ well as its hind foot (14*5 and 16 mm). I was unable to establish the exact colour of the specimen, for it was for about two years in spirit. As far as I remember, the colour of its back did not differ from that of the subterraneus. The skull is exceedingly flat, not smooth, but ridged. If we put the skull on its flat side, the foramen magnum is almost invisible, whereas in the case of the subterraneus it is plainly visible in the same position. (Fig. 2.) The interorbital part of the skull is comparatively long and narrow. The distance between the back edge of the interorbital constriction and hollowed part of the exterior edge of zygoma at the root of the nose, (3 mm) is in all cases larger, than the same distance on the subterraneus skulls. In the back corner of the interorbital constriction the edge of the braincase is almost vertical (88 degrees) to the longitudinal axis of the skull. This angle measured on the subterraneus skulls has been 73° the most. The jugular arcs are more elevated, they bend under a smaller angle toward the top plane of the skull. The os jugale is strikingly wide (1*8 mm). The angle of the nasalia to the plane of the top of the skull is 24°. The depth of the braincase is only 60*9 °/o of its breadth, that is smaller than the index figured on any of the rest of skulls. Measurements: Type: Head and body 91 mm, tail 35 mm; hind foot 16 mm; ear 9 mm. Paratype: 88X37X15X9 mm. The measurements of the Pitymys dacius specimen known hitherto are : 88 X 32*5 X 14-5X8-5 mm. Cranial measurements (stock to type hungaricus) : Condylobasal length 23—23'8 mm. Zygomatic breadth 136 —14.5 mm. Interorbital constriction 3*8— 3'8 mm. Occipital breadth 10*8—11.5 mm. Occipital depth 5—57 mm. Palatinal depth 6—6'4 mm. Length of nasalia 5*8—7l mm. Diastema 7—7'4 mm. Length of mandibles 15—14'6 mm. Maxillary tooth row 5'6 —6 mm. Mandibular tooth row 5-8—5'8 mm. Remark: My specimen lived for about three months in captivity.
