On a new Ficalbia /'/-om West Africa. 199 



is never fonnd among the western forms. The anterior 

 external space of the third lower molar is similarly modified. 



Dimensions. Head and body 105 mm. ; tail 45 j hind 

 foot 15 ; ear 12. 



Skull. Length of palate 12 mm.; length of nasals 8; 

 length of molar series 6 ; width of brain-case above posterior 

 roots of zygomata 13. 



Ilah. Tullian, Kashmir. Alt. 11,000 feet. 



Type. B.M. 5. 1. 5. 12. S ad. Tullian, Kashmir. 

 Collected by Col. A. E. Ward, 14th July, 1903. 



In outward appearance, as well as in skull-characters, this 

 vole is undoubtedly allied to M. nivalis of Europe, which, 

 however, has not hitherto been found east of the Caucasus ; 

 so that its discovery in Kashmir forms a considerable 

 eastward extension of this group. Its smaller size, slightly 

 browner coloration, and dental characters enable it to be 

 distinguished easily from the typical nivalis. 



XXI. — A new Ficalbia//-o??j West Africa. 

 By F. V. Theobald, M.A. 



Ficalbia nigripes, sp. u. 



Head black. Thorax pale bright yellowish brown, with 

 two parallel dark lines behind. Abdomen deep biown, with 

 narrow pale basal bands. Legs, antennae, palpi, and proboscis 

 deep blackish brown. Wings with pale scaled veins and 

 with deep brown costa. 



(^ . Htad clothed with flat deep black scales and black 

 upright forked scales. AntennaB deep blackish brown, with 

 paler dusky bands and deep brown plume-hairs. Proboscis 

 deep blackish brown, swollen apically ; palpi small, deep 

 brown. 



Thorax pale brown, clothed with long, narrow, curved, pale, 

 dull yellowish scales, except for two parallel bare lines, and 

 with two broad lines of long, nariow, curved, black scales on 

 each side of the bare space in front of the scutellum and 

 extending past it ; two rows of long black bristles and nume- 

 rous black ones over the roots of the wings ; scutellum 

 clothed with flat black scales and with brown border-bristles j 

 nietanotum deep brown ; pleurae pale ochreous. 



Abdomen deep blackisli brown, with white basal bands 

 and brown lateral hairs. 



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