50. MAMMALIA. 



c. Skin, skull $ Balkh, Afghan Turkes- C. E. Yate. 

 tan, 4-7-86. 

 d-e. 2 Stuffed, 1 Shiraz, 4,720 ft. Sir O. St. John. 



skull. 

 /■g. 2 Ale. $ Muskaff, Beluchistau J. A. Murray. 



Gerbillus meridianus. 



Mus meridianus, Pallas Reise, ii, p. 702 (1773)*. 



Mus longipes, Pallas Nov. Sp. Quad, e Clir., pp. 88, 314, pi. xviiiB (1778). 



Dipus longipes, Schreber Sdugeth., iv, p. 856 (1792). 



Dipus meridianus, Pallas Zoogr. Ross. As., p. 182 (1831). 



Meriones meridianus, Lichtenstein in Evers. Reise nach Buchara, p. 122 



(1823); Radde Zool. J. B., iv, p. 1047. 

 Rhombomys meridianus, Wagner Schreb. Sdugeth. Suppl., iii, p. 492 (1843). 

 Meriones i\i\\ns, Eversmann Bull. Nat. Mosc, xxi, pt. l, p. 195 (1848). 

 Gerbillus brevicaudatus, apud A. Milne Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. (5), vii, 



p. 377 (1867). 

 Gerbillus psammophiius, Milne Edwards Rech. Mavim., p. 144, pi. xa, fig. 



I, pi. xi, figs. 3, 4 (1868). 

 Gerbillus cryptorhinus, Blanford J. A. S. B., xliv, p. 108 (1875); id. 



Yarkand Mamin., p. 56, pis. x, XB, fig. 5. 

 Gerbillus meridianus, Biichner Wiss. Result, Przewalski Reisen Rodentia, 

 p. 57 (1889). 



Disfribulion. — The whole desert region of Central Asia from 

 the north of Pekin to Yarkand ; also the country round the Cas- 

 pian sea. 



The above synonymy is copied from Buchner's account of 

 Przewalski's Mammals; Biichner believes that the curious semi-circu- 

 lar flap over the nose which was the character chiefly relied on 

 by Blanford in distinguishing the Yarkand species, G. cryptorhinus, 

 is purely artificial and can be easily produced by immersing the 

 fresh animal in alcohol (cf. Lataste Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 

 xxxix, p. 267, 1885) ; he therefore identifies G. cryptorhinus with 

 M. meridianus of Pallas. 



a. Skin Kargalik, Yarkand F. Stoliczka. 



[Type of G. cryptorhinus, Blanford.] 



b-e. 4 Skins, 2 skulls Kargalik, Yarkand, F. Stoliczka. 



S-ii-73- 

 /. Skin Yarkand, 20-5-74 F- Stoliczka. 



g-j. 3 Skins Yangihissar, Yarkand, F, Stoliczka. 



4-74- 

 k. Skin Yarkand F. Stoliczka. 



I. Ale. skull Yarkand F. Stoliczka. 



[Co-type of G. cryptorhinus, Blanford]. 

 rtt-n. 2 Ale. Turkestan C. Ellis. 



Gerbillus hurrianse. 



Gerbillus hurrianae, Jcrdon Mamm., p. 186 (1867) ; Blanfora Persia, p, 68; 



Murray Zool. Sind, p. 43. 

 Gerbillus erythrourus, apud Jcrdon Mamm., p. 185 (1867). 



