Chapter 2

miles over habitats largely unsuitable for bog lemmings. The nearest locality of record for S. c. _gossii_ to the east of the type locality of _relictus_ is at Hunter, Mitchell County, Kansas (see Cockrum, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:196, 1952), approximately 200 miles distant. The locality of record of _gossii_ in Nebraska nearest to the type locality of _relictus_ is even farther eastward--1 mi. N Pleasant Dale, Seward County (KU 50188).

_Specimens examined._--Four, from the type locality (KU 51617, 72601-03).

_Transmitted March 11, 1958._