720 Mr. 0. Thomas on 



wino- from the middle of the costal margin almost to the anal 

 angle; the outer half of the wing dark grey, mottled with 

 darker spots ; a rather large black spot at the apex : second- 

 aries, the basal half hyaline, the veins all black ; the apex, 

 outer and inner margin broadly black; the fringe greyish. 

 Underside of the primaries black ; the secondaries as above. 



Expanse 1;^ inch. 



Ilab. West Africa, Bitje, Ja River, Cameraons, 2000 feet, 

 dry season (^Mus. Druce). 



Fani. Crambidse. 

 Cramhus (?) glgantilla, sp. n. 



Male. — Head, antenna3, collar, and thorax white; palpi 

 and sides of the head reddish brown ; abdomen and legs 

 black ; anal tuft with a few greyish hairs. Primaries greyisli 

 white, thickly irrorated with minute black dots ; the costal 

 margin reddish brown from the base to beyond the middle ; 

 the fringe grey and white: secondaries pale greyish brown, 

 the fringe white. The underside of both wings uniformly 

 dark brown ; the fringe white. — Female. Head, palpi, an- 

 tennae, and collar reddish brown ; tegulse and thorax yellow, 

 abdomen and legs black. Primaries streaked with grey and 

 yellow, the costal margin from the base to the apex reddish 

 brown, the fringe grey : secondaries pale greyish brown, 

 the fringe grey and white. Underside of both wings dark 

 brown, the fringe white. 



Expanse, S 2^, ? 2| inches. 



Hah. South Peru, Acopampa, 11,500 feet [Mas. Druce'). 



LXXX. — Three new Rodents from Kan-su. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Specimens representing the three following new species have 

 been obtained in Kan-su by Dr. J. A. C. Smith, already 

 well known as a mammal collector by his work with 

 Mr. Malcolm Anderson. They have been acquired for the 

 National Museum by the kind help of the Hon. N. Charles 

 liothschild. 



Myospalax smithii, sp. n. 

 A fairly large species of the fontameri group with a 



