Lemniscomys striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:62.

TYPE LOCALITY: " India " (= Sierra Leone; see Allen, 1939:394) .

DISTRIBUTION: From Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone west to Ethiopia, and south into NW Angola and through Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, and Tanzania into NE Zambia and N Malawi.

SYNONYMS: ardens, dieterleni, fasciatus, lulae, lynesi, massaicus, micropus, orientalis (Desmarest, 1819, not Hatt, 1935), pulchella, pulcher, spermophilus, venustus, versustos, wroughtoni .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1980).