Belomys pearsonii (Gray, 1842) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:263.

TYPE LOCALITY: " India, [Assam,] Dargellan" (= Darjeeling) .

DISTRIBUTION: Sikkim and Assam (India) to Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, (China); Bhutan; Taiwan, Indochina, and N Burma (see Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1979).

SYNONYMS: blandus Osgood, 1932; kaleensis (Swinhoe, 1863); trichotis Thomas, 1908; villosus (Blyth, 1847).

COMMENTS: Corbet and Hill (1992) synonomyzed this monotypic genus with Trogopterus .