450 Mr. O. Thomas on 



apicibusque ferrngitieis. Habitat Mus. Britann.'*^ — F., 



E.it. Syst. ii. p. 380, no. 30 (1793). 



Altliough Fcibiicius did not indicate any locality for this 

 type, it neveitiieless carries a small round label inscribed 

 " Georgia." The fact tliat tlie written surface of the label 

 had been placed in direct contact witli the pectus of the 

 dragonfly no doubt led to its being overlooked. The specimen 

 is in an unusually good state of preservation, andtlie measure- 

 ments are as follows: — Abdomen 39*5 mm., hind wins," 49 mm., 

 pterostigma 7 mm. In the fore wings the triangles are 

 3-celled, the subtriangles are 6-celled, and the antenodals 

 number from 16^ to 18. At the base of each wing a dark line 

 in the subcostal space reaches nearly to the third antenodal. 

 The nodal spot on all wings is small, and no markings of any 

 kind lie between that spot and the pterostigma. The brown 

 apical cloud on all wings is small, not reaching inwards much 

 beyond the distal end of the pterostigma. 



XLIII. — A new Vole Jrom Palestine. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



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



In 1913 the British Museum received as a donation fiom 

 Mr. N. Charles Rothschild six voles from Ekron, south-east 

 of Jaffa, and these were provisionally put down as Microtus 

 syriacus^ Brants. 



Inquiry was, however, made of Prof. Matschie as to certain 

 details of the type of that species, and with the help of his 

 account 1 am now able to recognize that the Ekron vole is 

 distinct and should be described as new. 



Microtus ])hilistinus, sp. n. 



Like M. lydius, Blackler, but bullaj larger. 



Size and general colour above quite as in M. lydius^ the 

 back sandy brown, rather more buffy than Ridgway's " buffiy 

 brown. ^' Sides more buffy, but not so strongly as in lydius. 

 Under surface washed with buffy, more so than in lydius, in 

 which the ends of the hairs are greyish white, less so than 

 in guentheri. Hands and feet buffy fawn. Tail as long as in 

 lydius, longer than in guentheri ; its upper surface terminally 

 iii.stinctly blackened, which is not tlie case in lydius ; its 

 lower surface pale buffy — white in lydius. 



