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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



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Specimens examined. — Eleven, all from the Pagi Islands. 



Remarks. — While this species is as dark in general coloration as 

 Mils catellifer, it is readily distinguishable by its greater size, and 

 by the less development of the brown collar. In six of the speci- 

 mens the throat is entirely pure white. The five others show traces 

 of a collar, and in two the band is complete though much less no- 

 ticeable than in the Mansalar rat. 



CHIROPODOMYS NIADIS sp. nov. 



Type. — Adult female (skin and skull), No. 121,867, United States 

 National Museum. Collected at Lafau, Nias Island, Sumatra, 

 March 30, 1903, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Original number, 2413. 



Fig. I. — Skull of Chiropodomys nitidis (X 2). 



Characters. — Size as in Chiropodomys glirioides, but color not as 

 dark, and skull with dorsal profile strongly convex. 



Color. — Upperparts wood-brown, everywhere paler than that of 

 Ridgway, and tinged, particularly on sides and flanks, with drab. 

 On middle of back the blackish hair-tips produce a slight dusky cast. 



