. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 280 P. J. J. Bates. • : T. boehmi Fig. 11: Distribution of Tatera boehmi. Scale = 250 km. Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807) Dipus indicus Hardwicke, 1807. — Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 8: 279. Between Benares and Hardwar, United Prov., India. Material: A total of 331 specimens of Tatera indica were examined from 125 localities in Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. Harrison (1972) lists additional material from Syria and Gaisler (1975) from Afghanistan. Di
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 280 P. J. J. Bates. • : T. boehmi Fig. 11: Distribution of Tatera boehmi. Scale = 250 km. Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807) Dipus indicus Hardwicke, 1807. — Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 8: 279. Between Benares and Hardwar, United Prov., India. Material: A total of 331 specimens of Tatera indica were examined from 125 localities in Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. Harrison (1972) lists additional material from Syria and Gaisler (1975) from Afghanistan. Diagnostic description: This is a medium to large species of Tatera with a greatest length of skull of between — mm, (Table 6). The tail is characteristically tricolored with dark dorsal and ventral surfaces and a pale lateral stripe on each side, although in a very small minority of specimens (3 %, n = 166) the tail was found to be uniformly pale. All tails have a terminal tuft of dark hairs. On average, skull length in T. indica exceeds in size that of T robusta, T valida and T. phillipsi, with specimens from northern Arabia, southern India and Sri Lanka being especially large. The rostrum is relatively long and narrow. In contrast to all T. robusta, T. nigricauda, T. phillipsi and the vast majority of T. valida and T. boehmi the mastoid chamber of the tympanic bullae of T indica are inflated. In only one T. indica specimen was this found not to be the case. This specimen (BM. 20. 5. 1. 17) came from Anasigalla, Sri Lanka. The cheekteeth are of intermediate width as compared to T. robusta and T. valida and the upper incisors are opisthodont and have a single clearly defined groove. The nasals extend well in front of the upper incisors, (Fig. 3). The osteology of this species is of interest. For, although no significant difference was found in the morphology of the femur between T. indica and the African Tatera an examination of the humerus suggests that there may
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