Ellobius fuscocapillus Blyth, 1843 . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 11:887.

TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, Baluchistan Region, Quetta Div., Quetta .

DISTRIBUTION: E Iran, Afghanistan, W Pakistan, and S Turkmenistan in the Kopet Dag Mtns.

SYNONYMS: farsistani, intermedius .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Afganomys . Chromosomal data presented by Vorontsov et al. (1980) and Lyapunova et al. (1980) in context of assessing specific differences within the genus and variation in sex chromosomes. Morphology described in detail by Hinton (1926), in context of surveying interrelationships among arvicoline genera.