CATALOGUE. 149 



184. LAGOMYS RUFESCEN8, Gray, Ann. and Mag. 

 ' N. H. 1842, JP. 266. 



HAB. Afghanistan, Griffith. 



A. From Griffith's Collection in Afghanistan. 



Fain. 4. JERBOID^), Gray, Cat. Mamm. 

 Br. Mus. Syst. List, XXV. 



C. DlPINA. 



Genus ALACTAGA, Fr. Cuv., Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 141. 

 DIPUS, Schreber, Pallas, et al. 



185. ALACTAGA IN DIG A, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. X. p. 262. 



Dipus acontion, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso, As. 



Alactaga acontium, Pallas. Hutton, Notes on the Zool. of 



Cand.J.A. S.B.XV.p. 137. 

 KHANEE, of the Afghans, Hutton. 



HAB. Afghanistan, Griffith. andahar, Hutton. 



A. B. C. Adult. 



D. E. F. Young. From Griffith's Collection in Afghan- 

 istan. 



In defining this species (Ann. N. H. above cited), Mr. Gray points 

 out its resemblance to Dipus acontion of Pallas, and the peculiarities in 

 which it differs. 



In the fifteenth volume of the J. A. S. B. p. 137, Capt. Hutton 

 gives some interesting details of the species of Alactaga which he 

 observed in Candahar : " This beautiful little animal is abundant over 

 all the stony plains throughout the country, burrowing deeply, and 

 when unearthed, bounding away with most surprising agility, after the 

 manner of the kangaroo-rat. It is easily tamed, and lives happily 

 enough in confinement, if furnished with plenty of room to leap about. 

 It sleeps all day, and so soundly, that it may be taken from its cage 

 and examined without awaking it ; or, at most, it will half open one 

 eye, in a drowsy manner for an instant, and immediately close it again 



