90 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol.. VIII, 



19. Dremomys lokriah (Hodgs.)- 



Sciurus lokriah, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, v, p. 



232 (1836). 

 Sciurus locria, Blanford, op. cit., p. 376 (1890). 



A perfectly t3"pical example from Komsing. 



Oldfield Thomas has pointed out {Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bom- 

 bay, xviii, p. 245, 1908) that the group of squirrels to which this 

 species belongs and to which the generic term Dremomys, Heude, 

 is applicable, is readil}^ differentiated by its more elongated 

 muzzle and by its gently sinuous lateral profile, not regularly 

 curved as in Lariscus or sharply bent as in true Sciurus. From 

 Rhinosciurus , which it resembles in its elongated muzzle, it is at 

 once distinguished by the characters of the teeth. 



As an external means of recognition it may be stated that all 

 the species of the genus have a tuft of pale silky fur behind 

 the ear. 



20. Dremomys pcrnyi (A. Milne-Edwards). 



Sciurus pernyi, A. Milne-Edwards, Rev. et Mag. de Zool,, p. 



230 (1867); Anderson, Anat. and Zool. Res., p. 255 



(1878). 

 Drem-onys pernyi, Thomas, Journ. Nat, Hist. Soc. Bombay, 



xviii, p. 249 (1908). 



A single female was obtained by Capt. I. Burn-Murdoch in the 

 Sirpo Valley, indicating a wide extension of range for this Chinese 

 species originally described from Sze-chuen. An allied form is 

 found in Central Tenasserim, Siam and the Karen Hills and other 

 species of the genus are found in Borneo, Formosa and the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



21. Epimys ** rattus*' (Linn.). 



Mus rattus, Blanford, op. cit., p. 406. 



Without larger material from the surrounding districts and 

 direct comparison with the types, it is impossible to say which of 

 the numerous names available for Indian rats of this section is 

 applicable to these specimens, details of which are given in the 

 table on p. 96. 



All four specimens are fairly uniform, having pale feet and 

 dull grey bellies not sharply defined from the flanks. Fur of the 

 upper surface long and soft, without spines and with numerous 

 long black piles on the lower back. General colour above greyish 

 black, grizzled with bistre, more abundantly on the sides. 



22. Lepus sp. 



I am unable to identify precisely a hare from Kobo, 400 ft., 



collected by Capt. R. L. Bignell. Judging from descriptions only, 



it seems in many respects intermediate between the common 



Indian hare, Lepus ruficaudatus, and the Burmese form, Lepu 



