320 SUPPLEMENT. 



Order RODENTIA. 

 Suborder RODENTIA SIMPLICIDENTATA. 



Section MYOMORPHA. 

 Family MURID^E (pt. i. p. 225). 

 Genus GERBXLLTJS, Desmarest l . 



The incisors narrow, and grooved in the upper jaw ; molars lami- 

 nated, the first having three ridges, the second two, and the third 

 one ridge. 



ffinMluS mtrtcua (Hardwicke 2 ). 



Syn. Dipus indicus, Hardwicke 3 . 



Hub. India. 



M. 3497. Two specimens of the leftramus of the mandible ; from a 

 cave at Billa-Surgam, Karnul district, Madras. Other 

 specimens are described and figured by the writer in 

 the ' Palseontologia Indica.' ser. 10, vol. iv. p. 35, woodcut 



Fig. 50. 



Gerbillus indicus. The leftramus of the mandible (|) and grinding-sur faces of 

 the lower molars (g); from a cave in the Karnul district. (From the 

 ' Palitontologia Indica.') 



fig. 1 ; one of the figures being reproduced in the accom- 

 panying woodcut. Presented by the Director of the 

 Geological Survey of India, 1886. 



1 Nouv. Dict.jl'Hist. Nat. vol. xxiv. p. 22 (1804). 



2 Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 279 (1804-7). Dipus. 



3 Loc. cit. 



