On new African Rodents. 419 



Ceratina chaJcites, Latr., var. a. 



Female with no light spot on clypeus. 



La Sagra, Granada (Escalera). British Museum. 



Ceratina binghami } Ckll. 



Dehra Dun, U. P., India, Nov. 1907 (Lt.-Col F. W. 

 Thomson). British Museum. 



Crocisa hizonensisj sp. n. 



? . — Length about 12 mm. 



Wings very dark ; light markings blue; scutellum of the 

 W-type, but the notch not deep and its sides slightly undu- 

 lating, so that it is rather intermediate between the two types; 

 face with blue hair; a strong keel between antennae; vertex 

 shining ; mesothorax with a T and two spots in pale bluish, 

 not strongly marked; pleura with a band of blue hair; hair 

 of scutellum all black ; tibiae (the basal half of hind tibiae 

 only) and tarsi blue-haired on outer side. Abdomen with 

 entire blue bands, which are exceedingly brilliant but not 

 metallic ; the first segment is blue except the hind margin 

 and a large quadrate basal patch. 



Hah. liisan, Benquet Prov., Luzon, Philippine Is. British 

 Museum, 1906-44. Collected May 30. 



This species will be further discussed in connexion with 

 other Malayan members of the genus. 



Boulder, Colorado. 

 March 31, 1910. 



LX. — Three new African Rodents. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



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



Kuxerus erythropus mcestus, subsp. n. 



A very dark-coloured form of the common E. erythropus. 



General colour above dark brown — like Prout's brown, but 

 darker, — very different to the more or lessochraceous or clay- 

 coloured tone of E. erythropus. Pelage thin and scanty, the 

 hairs, or, rather, spines, blackish, with minute whitish or 

 buffy tips. Crown blackish. Flanks below lateral line as 



