On a neiv Mouse from Damar aland. 349 



Boarmia cinctaria. 



Geomefra cinctaria, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 101 : Hiibn. Geom. fig. 166. 

 Boarmia ci?icfaria, Treit. Schmett. vi. 1, p. 188 ; Dup. Lep. vii. 



pi. dix figs. 2, 3. 

 Selidosetna cinctaria, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1892, p. 105. 

 Boarmia i72solita, Butl. Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 396 (1878) ; 



lU. Typ. Lep. Ilet. iii. p. 34, pi. xlix. tig. 5 (1879). 



There was a fine series from Oiwake and Yesso in Prjer's 

 collection. My native collector took specimens at Hakodate 

 in June. 



Some of the specimens are identical with European examples, 

 but others are of the pale form which Butler has described as 

 insolita, a variety of B. cirictari'a, which, according to 

 Grffiser, also occurs in Amurland. 



Distribution. Europe ; Altai ; Eastern Siberia ; Amur ; 

 Japan ; Yesso. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXII. — On a new Mouse from Damaraland, 

 By W. E. DE WiNTON. 



In a paper on a small collection of rodents made by Mr. C J. 

 Andersson in Damaraland, Mr. Oldfield Thomas (P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 266) refers four specimens of a mouse to Mus silacem, 

 Wagn. This determination was found to be wrong by 

 Mr. Thomas himself on visiting the Munich Museum some 

 years later, when he was able to examine Wagner's type. 

 As I have lately been working at the rodents of South Africa, 

 Mr. Thomas very kindly asked me to look at these mice, 

 giving me the benefit of his valuable notes and drawings of 

 the skull of Mus silaceus made on the spot. I find the 

 Damaraland mice belong to an undescribed species of a group 

 of which 1 believe the form hitherto known is Mus nigricauda 

 from the same locality and described in the paper referred 

 to above. 



The species may be known as 



Mus damar ensiSf sp. n. 



Size somewhat larger than Mus sylvaticus. Fur long and 

 soft, of that peculiar colour usually associated with desert- 

 living species. Colour above reddish fawn or isabelline, 

 sparingly sprinkled with very fine darker hairs, the colour 

 richest along the dorsal line, fading gradually into grey on 

 the sides and cheeks, all the lower parts with the feet and 

 hands pure white, the hairs being white to their bases. Ears 



