Apodemus draco (Barrett-Hamilton, 1900) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1900:418.

TYPE LOCALITY: S China, NW Fujian, Kuatun .

DISTRIBUTION: China (Hebei, SW Fujian, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ninxia, Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xixang), Burma, and India (Assam).

SYNONYMS: argenteus (Swinhoe, not Temminck), bodius, ilex, orestes .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alsomys . Originally described as a subspecies of sylvaticus, and listed that way by Allen (1940:945) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:571), but correctly listed as a separate species by Ellerman (1941:101), Corbet (1978c:137), Corbet and Hill (1991), and Xia (1985), who also noted the close relationship between A. draco and A. argenteus .