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MURES CELEBENSES. 



Ear 24 



Hind foot 41 



Length molar series 7 



Distance between incisor and first upper molar . . 11 



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 Hab: Celebes, Menado (v. Musschenbroek). 



5. Mus callitrlchus, n. sp. 



n. i. mea, pengaladen, pangoesaio, tangkara and loemalapait. 



Upper parts bright brown. Woolly hairs slate-coloured 

 with light brown tips ; before the tip a brown ring. Lon- 

 ger and more solid hairs , slate-coloured with long brown 

 tips are intermixed with them. Throat, chest, belly and 

 inside of legs covered with short hairs , slate-coloured with 

 bright yellowish-brown tips. Lips with pure white hairs. 

 Tail shorter than head and body , white towards the tip , 

 for the rest black, with a few hairs. Whiskers entirely 

 brown or white tipped. 



Ears very widely opened , broad , rounded. 



Upper cutting-teeth orange , the lower ones lighter 

 coloured. 



Twelve specimens (L. M.). m. m. 



Head and body 240 



Tail 210 



Ear , 20 



Hind foot 46 



Length upper molar series 10 



Distance between incisor and first upper molar . . 13 

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Hab: Celebes, Menado (v. Musschenbroek). 



6. Mus Meyeri, v. Musschenbroek, in litt. 



n. i. pengaladen. 



The upper parts generally tawny. Head , back and outside 



of legs covered with two kinds of hair. 1°. woolly , light brown 



with very long sparkling white tips , and 2". longer hairs , 



brown at the base and also sparkling white towards the 



Notes trom tlie Leyclen IMiiseurn. 



