154 Mr. O. Thomas on 



inner area suffused with red-brown, sparsely irrorated with dark 

 brown scales, some of the scales forming a slight diffused obliquely 

 curved shade from discal fold beyond the cell to below middle of 

 cell ; a terminal series of black points from apex to submedian fold. 

 Hind wing creamy white suffused with reddish brown except at 

 base and inner margin ; a slight brown terminal line to submedian 

 fold ; cilia creamy white. Underside creamy white tinged with 

 red-brown, the fore wing with obscure white discoidal bar. 



Sab. Madras, Belgaum ( Watson), 1 $ type. Exp. 44 mm. 



(8 a) Charltona interstitalis, sp. n. 



2 ■ Head golden yellow, the antennae black ; thorax ochreons 

 white with dorsal black streak and oblique streak across base of 

 patagia ; abdomen pale yellow, tinged with brown except at base ; 

 legs suffused with blackish. Tore wing ochreous white ; a black 

 streak on costa ; a black fascia in discal fold from before middle of 

 cell to termen, interrupted by a pale discoidal bar ; a black fascia 

 in submedian fold from base to below end of cell ; a black fascia on 

 inner margin from before middle to tornus ; a subapical black spot 

 on termen ; the terminal area with black fasciae in the interspaces 

 from below vein 7 to above 2, the fascia below vein 5 short and 

 the one below 3 extending to below end of cell ; a small black spot 

 at submedian fold on termen. Hind wing yellowish white suffused 

 with reddish brown, the base, inner area, and a streak above median 

 nervure paler ; a terminal series of blackish points to submedian 

 fold ; cilia pale. Underside yellowish white tinged with reddish 

 brown. 



Hal. N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 $ type, Ilorin 

 (Lugard), 1 $ . Exp. 42 mm. 



[To be continued.] 



XXII. — Two new Rodents from Tartagal) Salta, 



JV. Argentina. By Oldfield Thomas. 



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



Befoee obtaining the series from Abrapampa and Casabindo, 

 of which an account is given above, Sr. Budin tried collect- 

 ing at Tartagal, in the comparatively lowland part of the 

 Province of Salta. Conditions, however, were not very 

 suitable for the work, while a plague of ants rendered 

 trapping almost nugatory. Examples of the following species 

 were however obtained, among them being a new tuco-tuco 

 with the highly exceptional habit of living in thick forest 

 instead of open country : — 



1. Hesperomys venustus, Tlios. 



? . 401. Tartagal, 600 m. 

 " Caught in woods."— E. B. 



