Pitymys thomasi (Barrett-Hamilton, 1903) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 11:306.

TYPE LOCALITY: Yugoslavia, Montenegro, Vranici .

DISTRIBUTION: S. coastal Yugoslavia; Albania and adjacent Greece.

COMMENT: Subgenus Meridiopitymys; see Chaline, 1974. Includes atticus; see Petrov and Zivkovic, 1979, Biosystematika, 5(1):113— 125; and Corbet, 1978:110. Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, as a synonym of duodecimcostatus; evidence of specific distinctness provided by Petrov and Zivkovic, 1972, Saugetierk. Mitt., 20:249-258.