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Dimensions of an old female from Ootacamund are : — 

 Head and body 266 mm. : tail 245 ; hind foot 51 : ear 30. 

 Skull : greatest length 57 ; basilar length 50 ; zygomatic breadth 

 31'5 ; nasals 21*3 ; diastema 18*5 : upper molar series 10. 

 Hab. Pondicherry. 



(6) Bandicota nemorivaga, Hodgs. 



1836. Mus (Rattus) nemorivagus, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 234. 



1845. Mus macropus, Hodgs. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 268. 



Two cotypes of Hodgson's nemorivagvs and the type of his 

 macropus are in the Museum Collection. 



Size about as in elUotana. 



The coat has the " mantle ' of long hairs much less marked 

 than in the larger forms (except elUotana). The general colour 

 is a dull brown, the long hairs being merely a somewhat darker 

 shade of the underfill* amounting at most to. 



Dimensions as recorded by Hodgson are : — 



Head and body 300 mm. ; tail 240 ; hind foot 48 ■ ear 31. 



Skull : greatest length 59 ; basilar length 50 ; zygomatic breadth 

 32 ; nasals 21 ; diastema 19 ; upper molar series 10*5. 



Hab. The type locality is Nepal. 



The type of Mus macropus shows it to have been a quite young 

 animal and as it was taken in the same locality as nemorivaga it is 

 no doubt a young individual of that species. 



Specimens from Tonghoo in Burma and Taiwan in Formosa show 

 only small differences, though apparently both are smaller than 

 nemorivaga. In the absence of material to show whether any or 

 all of these differences are constant, it would be unjustifiable to 

 separate them. 



I cannot close this paper without calling the attention of members 

 to the fact that there is in the National Collection not a single speci- 

 men of Bandicota from the Bombay Presidency, and consequently 

 Guzerath, the Dekhan, Konkan, and Carnatic have had to be left 

 out in the above notes on the o-enus. 



