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4. iV. heaha, Wroughton. Type locality : — Pithoro, Central 



Sind Desert. (Govt, of Bombay). 



Other localities : — Pithoro (Bombay 

 Government). 

 ■ Type:~B. M. No. 8. 9. 13. 9. 



Gen. IV. — Dacnomys. 



Blanford had no knowledge of this animal ; the genus was 

 established by Thomas to receive it. (J. B. N. H. S., xxiv., p. 404, 

 1916). There is only the one species. 



Distribution : — 



D. millardi, Thomas. Type locality : — Gopaldhara, Darji- 



ling. (B. N. H. S.— R. S. Lister). 

 Other localities : — Pashok, Darjiling 

 (M. S. I.). 



Type:—B. M. No. 16. 3. 25. 98. 



Gen. V. — Rattus. 



The separation of the rats subgenerically from the mice (Mus), 



under the name Epimys, was proposed by Trouessart in 1881 



(Bull. Soc. Sci. d' Angers). It was accepted as a full genus 



by Miller in 1910 (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, xxiii, p. 58.) Hollis- 



ter, however, recently showed that the oldest name for the genus 



is Rattus (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., p. 126, 1916), and must be 



used in place of Epimys. 



No. 272. rattus, L. These are the nine species of the 



No. 273. concolor, Bl. genus recognised by Blanford. I 



No. 274. decumanus. Pall. cannot find a single authentic record 



No. 27^.fulvescens, Gray. of the taking of ^ecwmawws in India, 



No. 276. bowersi, And. outside the docks of seaside towns. 



No. 277. herdmorei, Bl. and j)ropose to omit it from this 



No. 278. blanfordi, Thos. list; jerdoni I have shown (J. B. N, 



No. 279. jerdoni, Bl. H. S. xxiv, p. 489, 1916), to be a 



No. 280. niveiventer, Hodgs. synonym of fulvescens, and it also 



therefore drops out of this list. On 

 the other hand, however, a number of new names must be added. 

 The species surifer, Miller, and vociferans, Miller, have been found 

 to intrude into our area. Besides 7nackenziei, and m. fece, allied to 

 bowersi, Anderson, and manipulus, and berdmorei mullulus, allied to 

 berdmorei, Blyth, Thomas has described the new species listeri (J.B. 

 N. H. S. xxiv, pp. 407—414, 1916), and mentosus (J. B. N. H. S. 

 xxiv, p. 643, 1916). I have myself described the species lepcha 

 and eha, allied to niviventer and fulvescens respectively ( 1. c. p. 

 427). Finally Mr, Hinton in his study of the rattus group has 

 added eight names in that group. To these must be added Bon- 

 hote's species vicerex, which, if it does not belong to it, comes very 



