IMi. O. TliOMins on A/riran Podfinls. 221 



scntclluni, :im(1 oorium thickly finely pimctato, a|)i('al urea of 

 BCuti-lliun and disk ot'coriuin iiiorc! or less rugulose. 



Long l.'i^ to 1 ti mra. ; mux. breadth 8i to 9.V mm. 



I/ab. Al)yssinia ;' Didessa Hivcr, 140!) ft.", Gainii, 2H00ft., 

 Nono, ;i<)()() ft. {Zaphiio, Brit. Mas.). 



(Moscly allied to the West African ('. fiinebris, Fahr., but 

 differing in the eolour of the legs and the short'T antennx*, 

 of which the second joint is twice as long as the third. 



Genus Aspg.vgopus. 

 A*pongopui, Lap. (part) Ess. Il^ni. p. 68 (183:.'). 



Tyj)C, A.janiis, Fabr. 



Asponyopus drcumcinctus, S). n. 



Black ; lateral margins of pronotnm, basal lateral margins 

 to corium, connexivum, and body beneath ochraeeous ; legs 

 fuscous brown ; autennie black, the basal joint testaceous, 

 second joint slightly longer than third ; third and fourth 

 joints subequal in length, fifth longest, cylindrical and 

 pilose ; head about as broad as long, the ape.x broadly 

 truncate, irregularly [)unetate ; pronotum about two-thirds 

 as long as broad at base, the lateral margins moderately 

 ampliate and rounded, very finely and thickly punctate and 

 slightly transversely wrinkled ; scutellum about as long as 

 broad at base, very finely and thickly punctate and slightly 

 transversely wrinkled ; corium about as long as membrane, 

 wrinkled, but not apparently punctate; body beneath more 

 or less finely darkly speckled or punctate, the central disk of 

 sternum more prominently so. 



Long. 12 mra. 



I/ab. Congo Free State, Kambovc, Katanga, 40(X)-5(XX) ft. 

 {\eavf, Brit. Mus.). 



XXIII. — yules on African Rodents. 



By Oldfii:ld Ihomas. 



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



L A new Genus of Gerbils. 



Further study shows that the group of small GerbiU 

 which contains "* GerhiUus" emini and its allies, of recent 



