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to back of palate 11mm. ; diastema 7 mm. ; molar series 4 mm. ; 

 palatal foramina!5x2 mm. ; breadth of zygoma at root 2 mm. 



Bahitat — Coonoor, Filgiri Hills, S. India. Altitude 5,000 feet. 



Tjipe. — British Museimi 97-11-12-1. Collected and presented by 

 Mr. (Charles Grey. 



Although, as above noted, this mouse has a skull resembling in a 

 general wav that of M. mvsculns and its allies, yet the detailed cranial 

 differences are very marked, while in colour it is absolutely different 

 from any species as yet known from India. 



Jerdon's Mns mlagirkiis (Jerdon's " Mammals of India," p. 203, 1867), 

 which also has a yellow body and comes from the same district, is, as 

 he supposed, clearly a Vandeluria^ and is considered by Blanford 

 as a synonym of V. oleracea, (Sykes.) 



