720 Mr. O. Thomas on 



wing iVoin the middle of the costal margin almost to the anal 

 angle; the outer iialf of the wing dark grey, mottled with 

 darker spots ; a rather large black spot at the apex : second- 

 aries, the basal half hyaline, the veins all black ; the apex, 

 outer and inner margin broadly black ; the fringe greyish. 

 Underside of the primaries black ; tlic secondaries as above. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Ilab. West Africa, Bitje, Ja River, Oameroons, 2000 feet, 

 dry season (^Mus. Druce). 



Fam. Cramhidas. 

 Crambus(?) gigantilla, sp. n. 



Male. — Head, antenna, collar, and thorax white; palpi 

 and sides of the head reddish brown ; abdomen and legs 

 black; anal tuft with a few greyish hairs. Primaries greyish 

 white, thickly irrorated with minute black dots ; the costal 

 margin reddish brown from the base to beyond the middle ; 

 the fringe grey and white: secondaries pale gre^'ish brown, 

 the fringe white. The underside of both wings uniformly 

 dark brown ; the fringe white. — Female. Head, palpi, an- 

 tennae, and collar reddish brown ; tegulse and thorax yellow, 

 abdomen and legs black. Primaries streaked with grey and 

 yellow, the costal margin from the base to the apex reddish 

 brown, the fringe grey : secondaries pale greyish brown, 

 the fringe grey and white. Underside of both, wings dark 

 brown, the fringe white. 



Expanse, S 2|, ? 2f inches. 



Hah. South Peru, Acopampa, 11,500 feet [Mas. Druce). 



LXXX. — Three new Rodents from Kan- sit. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



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



Specimens representing the three following new species have 

 been obtained in Kan-su by Dr. J. A. C, Smith, already 

 well known as a mammal collector by his work with 

 Mr. Malcolm Anderson. They have been acquired for the 

 National ]\luseum by the kind help of the Hon. N. Charles 

 liothschild. 



A/i/ospala.v sniidtii'j sp. n. 

 A fairly large species of the fonlanieri group with a 



