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dorsal line particularly heavily pencilled with black. Ears brown. Hands and 

 feet brown on the middle of the metapodials, whitish laterally and on the digits. 

 Tail well clothed with coarse, hairs 2 — 3mm. in length ; dark brown above, 

 rather paler below. 



Skull similar in general characters to that of G. bengalensis, but larger and 

 heavier throughout. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 266 mm ; tail 197 ; hind foot 40 ; ear 19. 



Skull ; condylo-basal length 48 ; basilar length 43 ; greatest breadth 26 — 7 ; 

 nasals 16 x 5*2 ; interorbital breadth 6*5 ; frontal height* 15*5 ; palatilar length 

 25*5 ; diastema 16*3 ; palatal foramina 10 x 2-6 ; length of upper molar series 

 (crowns) 7-3, (alveoli) 8*5. 



Habitat. — Georgetown, Pinang, Malay Peninsula. 



Type.— Adult male. B. M. No. 98.8.3.3. Collected 8th April 1898, and pre- 

 sented by Capt. S. S. Flower. 



This is the " Mus setifer Horsfield," of Dr. Cantor's " List of Malayan Mam- 

 mals,'^ a specimen collected by him in Pinang having been received with the 

 Indian Museum collections in 1879. 



G. varius is distinguishable from G. bengalemis by its coarse fur, variegated 

 colour, and comparatively large size. 



GUNOMYS VARILLUS, sp. n. 



Like G. varius, but very much smaller. 



Size very small, scarcely equalling the smallest S. Indian species of the genus. 

 Fur coarse ; longer piles almost confined to the posterior back. General colour 

 above about as in G. varius, or rather more buffy, but the mixture is finer, not 

 so coarsely variegated. Under surface dull greyish, the hairs slaty at base, 

 dull creamy terminally. Hands and feet brown. Tail more finely scaled than 

 in G. varius, uniformly brown. Skull very much smaller in all dimensions than 

 that of G. varius, but essentially similar in form. Nasals short and narrow. Su- 

 praorbital ridges less heavily developed. Anterior zygomatic plate well project- 

 ed forwards, much more so than in the equally small S. Indian G. hole. Palatal 

 foramina of equal breadth for their anterior two-thirds, narrowed in their 

 posterior third. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body 184 mm; tail 137 ; hind foot 36-5 ; ear 16. 



Skull ; condylo-basal length 40*5 ; basilar length 35 ; greatest breadth 23 ; 

 nasals 13 x 4*3 ; interorbital breadth 5*7 ; frontal height 12-5 ; palatilar length 

 21 ; diastema 13; palatal foramina 8 x 2*4; length of upper molar series 

 (crowns) 7, (alveoli ) 8. 



Habitat. — Georgetown, Pinang. 



Type. — Adult male. B. M. No. 98.8.3.5. Collected and presented by Capt. 

 S. S. Flower. Another specimen obtained by Dr. Cantor. 



* From the supraorbital ridge to the alveolus between m' and m a . 

 t J. A. S. B. XV, p. 254 (.1846). 



