CLASSIFICATION OF THE BANDICOOTS. 74§ 



Size about the same as Nesokia inclica. Fur long (25 mm. on 

 back), soft and silky. Generol colour above ' mummy brown,' indivi- 

 dual hairs " slate-grey " basally for three-fourths their length, then 

 buff ; below whitish grey, individual hairs " slate grey ' with white 

 tips ; chin white ; hands dark, the fingers white ; feet rather densely 

 clothed with short hairs, dark umber-brown above, white on the sides. 



Dimensions of type (measured in the flesh): — 



Head and body 198 mm. ; tail 155 ; hind foot 37 ; ear 25*5. 



Skull : greatest length 45 (c.) ; basilar length 39 (c.) ; zygomatic 

 breadth 26*5 ; diastema 13 ; length of upper molar series 8. 



Hob. Kashmir. (Type from Pandritton, 5,500'.) 



Type. Adult male. B. M. no. 8. 7. 6. 34. Original number 791. 

 Collected 25th November, 1906, by C. M. Crump, and presented to 

 the Natural History Museum by Col. A. E. Ward. 



Five specimens in all examined. The tail seems to average rather 

 short for a Gunomys ; in the type it is fairly normal for the genus, 

 but in other specimens it barely exceeds two-thirds the length of the 

 head and body. The long, thick silkly coat serves to distinguish it 

 at a glance from any other Guvomys. I have much pleasure in 

 naming thisvery distinct species after Col. Ward. 



(5) Gunomys varius, Thos. 

 1908. Gunomys varius, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 204. 

 Thomas, in describing this species, says : — " Size decidedly larger 

 than in G. bengalensis. Fur very coarse and harsh, though not to be 

 called spiny. General colour above coarsely mixed black and 

 cream-buff, without the brown tints of bengalensis. Under surface 

 dull grizzled greyish. Hands and feet brown on the middle of the 

 metapodials, whitish laterally and on the digits. 



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

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

 Skull: greatest length 48; basilar length 43; zygomatic breadth 

 26*7; brain-case breadth 13*2; interorbital breadth 6 5; nasals 16: 

 diastema 16*3; upper molar series 7*6. 



Hab. The type locality is Penang, Malay Peninsula. 



(6) Gunomys lordi, sp. n. 

 A Gunomys of the large-toothed kok group, of large size and 

 short harsh fur. 



