246 Mr. J. A. Murray on a new Gerbillus. 



found also in Gyaritus and AxinyUium^ from which this 

 genus is differentiated in the two lobes of the eyes being 

 completely disconnected. The type of the genus has perhaps 

 more the facies of Oloessa^ which, however, belongs to 

 another group ; it is more or less covered with a silky pubes- 

 cence, and, especially beneath the antenna?, with long erect 

 seta3, the legs included. 



Zeargyra vidua. 



Z. modice robusta, nitida, atra ; elytris dimidio basali et apice Isete 

 argenteis, basi tuberculis duabus fasciculatis munito. Long. 2| 

 lin. 



Hob. North Borneo. 



Moderately stout, glossy black, the elytra with the basal 

 half and large portion of the apex covered with a close silvery 

 pubescence ; head not broader than the prothorax, flat between 

 the antennary tubers, which are widely apart; antennee longer 

 than the body, the third joint not quite so long as the fourth, 

 but both longer than the scape ; prothorax slightly longer 

 than broad, narrowing towards the base and rather coarsely 

 but not strongly punctured, the middle of the disk with two 

 well-marked, nearly erect, approximate spines, the spines at 

 the sides pointed and conical ; scutellum transverse, rounded 

 behind ; elytra subovate, declivous towards the apex, striate- 

 punctate, with two elevated fasciculate tubercles at the base, 

 behind which the elytra are slightly depressed ; legs with a 

 white pubescence, the claws brownish. 



XXII. — Description of a neic GftxhiWxxs, from Sind. By 

 James A. Murray, Curator, Kurrachee Municipal Museum. 



Gerbillus Gleadowi, sp. nov. 



Fur soft and long, rufous-fawn above, white below, the 

 two colours sharply defined ; fur of the upper parts rufous- 

 fawn for one third the terminal length and slaty to the base. 

 A broad supercilium in front and the sides of the face white, 

 limiting the rufous-fawn on the nose to a narrow band. A 

 small rufous cheek-patch present. Ears slightly concave in 

 front near the tip and convex at the base ; the tip is rounded 

 off; behind they are convex; laid forward they reach halfway to 

 the hind edge of the eye; on the outside they are clad with short 



