566 BULLETIN 17 8, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Family SPALACIDAE: Mole Rats 

 Genus MYOSPALAX Laxmann 



*Myotalpa cansus Lyon. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 50 : 134, July 9, 1907. 

 =Myospalax cansus (Lyon). See Thomas, Proc. Zool. Sec. London, 1908 

 (pt. 2) : 978, Apr. 1909. 



144022. Skin and skull. Adult female. Taocheo, Province of 

 Kan-su, China. May 7, 1906. Collected by W. W. Simpson. 

 Original number 7. 



Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Genus SPALAX Gueldenstaedt 

 *Spalax berytensis Miller. 



Proc. Biol. Soe. Washington 16: 162, Nov. 30, 1903. 



^^Q^^. Skin and skull. Adult female. Beyrout, Svria. April 

 36859 ^ . 



1878. Collected by W. T. Van Dyck. 



Fairly well-made skin in fair condition, a bare patch about chin and 



throat; skull Grade B. 



*Spalax dolbrogeae Miller. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 16: 161, Nov. 30, 1903. 

 122109. Skin and skull. Adult male. Malcociu near Tulchea, 

 Dobrogea (or Dobruja), Rumania. March 20, 1903. Purchased 

 from Wilhelm Schliiter, of Halle, Germany. 

 Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Family THRYONOMYIDAE: Rush Rats 

 Genus THRYONOMYS Fitzinger 



*Thryonomys gregorianus pusillus Heller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 59 (16) : 17, July 5, 1912. 

 = T1irifonomys pusillus Heller. See Hollister, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 99 (pt. 2) : 



163, May 16, 1919. 

 181807. Skin and skull. Adult female. Ndi, Taita Hills, British 



East Africa [=Kenya]. November 3, 1911. Collected by 



Edmund Heller. Original number 4566 (not 4853 as printed in 



original description) . 



Well-made skin in good condition, left foreleg shortened, apparently by 



trap; skull Grade A. 



Family ZAPODIDAE: Jumping Mice 

 Genus NAPAEOZAPUS Preble 

 |Napaeozapus insignis frutectanus Jackson. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 32: 9, Feb. 14, 1919. 



