186 Mr. 0. Thomas on 



44. Haver sia alboh'mbata, sp. n. 



Elongate, convex, narrow, acuminate posteriorly, shining, 

 black, the antennae and tarsi rufescent ; above densely clothed 

 with shining, adpressed scales, which are coppery-brown in 

 colour, except along the sides of the pro thorax and elytra, 

 around the eyes, on a median line on the prothorax, and on 

 the hidden scufellum, where they are wholly whitish, the 

 scales on the under surface smaller, whitish, those on the 

 upper surface of the femora cupreous ; densely, finely 

 punctate, above and beneath. Rostrum densely punctate, 

 substriate, and squamose at the base, bare and almost smooth 

 thence to the tip. Prothorax a little broader than long, 

 rounded at the sides, narrowed in front and behind, margined 

 at the base. Elytra a little wider than the prothorax, parallel 

 to near the middle, and rapidly narrowed thence to the apex, 

 margined at the base, feebly punctato-striate, the interstices 

 flat. Ventral segments 1 and 2 sulcate down the middle. 



Length (excl. head) 3f, breadth 1^ mm. (c?«) 



Hab. Falklands (77*. Havers). 



Two specimens received by the Museum in 1873, both 

 injured by pinning, one with the vestiture intact. The 

 scales on the upper surface are so closely placed as to com- 

 pletely hide the sculpture, as in various species of somewhat 

 similarly coloured Tyehius and Sibinia. 



Horsell, Dec. 1917. 



XIX. — On small Mammals from Salt a and Jujuy collected by 

 Mr. E. Budin. By Oldfield Thomas. 



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



The British Museum has recently received a collection of 

 Mammals made in Saltaand Jujuy by Mr. E. Budin, to whom 

 we were indebted for those from Jujuy described in 1913*. 

 This further collection contains so many species of interest 

 that a list of it seems worthy of publication. 



The specimens come from two distinct localities — one, 

 Manuel Elordi, comparatively lowland (500 m.), on the 

 western Chaco country of the Upper Vermejo, and the 

 other, Leon, on the hill-country to the north-west of Jujuy 

 town, at an altitude of 1500 metres. The animals obtained 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xi. p. 136 (1913). 



