Lasiopodomys fuscus (Büchner, 1889) . Wiss. Res. Przewalski Cent.-Asien Reisen, Zool., I:(Säuget.), p. 125.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Qinghai Prov., "Dy-Tschju River (upper reaches of Yellow and Blue Rivers), approximately 34°N, 93°E " (as given by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:682) .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from Qinghai Prov.; extent of range unresolved.

COMMENTS: Included in Pitymys leucurus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978c), but separated as a species and placed in Lasiopodomys by Zheng and Wang (1980).