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So far as material is available it seems that the range of indica 

 is Behar, the United Provinces, the Dekhan, and Gnjerath. 



(2) Tatera sherrini, sp. nov. 



Size as in indica. Fnr soft, silky, and fairly long (20-25 mm. 

 on lower back). General colour above "ecru drab", below pure 

 white. Face with usual pale markings before and behind the eyes. 

 Feet white. Tail quadricolor, blackish above and below buff" on 

 the sides, tip (60-65 mm.) black, with lengthened hairs almost 

 amounting to a tuft. 



Skull smaller than in indica ; the anterior palatal foramiaia short, 

 the posterior exceptionally long ; bulte relatively large. 



Dimensions of the type. — Head and body 162 ; tnil 191 ; hind- 

 foot 37 ; and ear 24. " 



Skull : — Greatest length 42 ; condjdo-incisive length 37"5 ; 

 Zygomatic breadth 21 ; interorbital breadth 7 ; palatilar length 

 18-5; diastema 11-5; nasals 18; anterior palatal foramina 7; 

 posterior palatal foramina 3*5 ; and molar tooth row 6. 



Habitat. — Sind. Type from Jacobabad. 



Tii2ye.— Old male. B. M. No. 15. 11. 1. 88. Original number 

 427.' Collected by Mr. S. H. Prater on the 21st February 1915 

 and presented to the National Collection by the Bombay Natural 

 Historj- Society. 



Altogether 22 specimens were obtained by the Survey. The 

 contrast between the drab colouring of sherrini and the ochraceous 

 of indica, or even the buff' of diinni, is very marked, and in this 

 sherrini seems to approach much more closely to taeniura, persica, 

 &c., the Persian forms. 



1 have much pleasure in naming this very distinct species after 

 Mr. W. R. Sherrin, of the Natural History Museum, who has 

 given such invaluable assistance in organising the storage of the 

 Survey material and in many other ways. 



(3) Tatera dunni, sp. n. 



A Tatera of the same size as sherrini, from which it is distinguish- 

 able by its pale buffy coloration. 



Size as in sherrini. Fur soft and silky, but shorter than in that 

 species (15-20 mm. on the lower back). General colour above 

 " pinkish buff"," below pure white. Otherwise as in sherrini. 



Skull slightly longer and stouter than in sherrini, the anterior 

 palatal foramina markedly longer. 



Dimensions of the type. — Head and body 160 ; tail 190 ( ? the 

 Collector recorded it as 203, but it bad obviously been distorted, 

 the other specimens gave nvuch smaller figures); hindfoot, 37 ; 

 ear 24. Skull : — Greatest length 44 ; condylo-iucisive length 



