Pitymys ciscaucasicus (Ognev, 1924) . Gryzuny Severnovo Kavkaza, p. 34.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Gruzinsk. S.S. R. (Georgia), near Vladikavkaz (^Ordzhonikidze) .

DISTRIBUTION: N. Caucasus Mtns. (U.S. S.R.).

COMMENT: Subgenus probably Meridiopitymys; see Chaline, 1974; regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, as a synonym of subterraneus, and by Corbet, 1978:109, of majori; Kratochvil and Kral, 1974, Zool. Listy, 23:289-302, provided evidence of specific distinctness.