TATEEA EOBUSTUS. 
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TATERA. 
Tatera, Lataste, Le Naturaliste^ 1882, p. 126. 
Form rather rat-like; ears moderate ; hind legs not elongated; soles of feet naked. 
Incisors grooved; molars very persistently divided into transverse laminae, but when 
greatly worn the lateral infoldings of enamel are simple and V-shaped, in pairs. 
Tateea eobustus, Cretzschm. 
Meriones robustus, Cretscbm. Riipp. Atlas, 1828, p. 75, pi. 29. fig. b. 
Meriones murinus, Sundev. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1842, p. 231. 
There is no specimen of this animal, either in the British Museum or in Dr. Anderson’s 
collection, taken within the bounds more strictly treated of in this work, but the type 
of the species is stated to have come from Ambukol. 
Messrs. Eothschild and Wollaston found it common at Shendi, and Mr. Witherby 
obtained specimens from near Khartum, the locality from which Hedenborg obtained 
the original specimens named M. murinus by Sundevall. 
Dr. Anderson made the following note on the type specimen preserved in the 
Frankfort Museum :— 
“ Meriones rohustus, Cretzschmar. Type. 
Icon. Riippel], Atlas, p. 75, pi. 29. fig. b. Geschenk von Riippell, 1824, Ambukol in Nubia. 
Skull in specimen. A second ticket on the specimen marked VII.H.2c. 
mm. 
Snout to vent. I45 
Vent to tip of tail. I45 
Hind foot without claws.. . . 35 
,, with claws. 38 
Height of ear (more or less brokers)... 16 
“ Tarsus bare. Five metatarsal tubercles. 
Ihe fur on the back is somewhat brownish yellow, as many of the hairs have 
a subapical yellow band and are tipped with brown. The sides are yellow, passing 
gradually into white on the under surface. The upper surfaces of the limbs are 
white. The area above, before, and between the eye and the ear more or less white, 
also the hairs behind the ear. The hairs on the tail are pale brown, with yellowish 
hairs intermixed.” — W. E. de W. 
