314 MR. C. BODEN KLOSS ON 



length, 4.8 ; palatilar length, 11.2 ; diastema, 6.8; upper molar-row 

 (alveoli), 4.0; median nasal length, 7.0; interorbital breadth, 4.8; 

 zygomatic breadth, 14.8. 



Mr. G. C. Shortridge notes of a large series obtained by him in 

 Tenasserim and recorded by Wroughton as C . iierjuensis (Journ. Bombaj*. 

 N. H. Soc, xxiii, p. 716, 1915): — " Verj' plentiful around Bankaclion 

 wherever there were bamboos. They never got into traps, even when 

 set among bamboos, but were easy to find as they hid by day, 

 generally singly, occasionally a female and tsvo young, inside the 

 hollow joints of dead bamboos, through one side of which they had 

 bored a circular entrance, about two inches in diameter. 



Weight.— H oz." 



15. Rattus siTrifer surifer. 



Mus surifer Miller, Proe. Biol. Soc, Washington, xiii, p. 148, pi. 



iv, figs 4, 4a. 4b. (1900). 

 Epimi/s surifer surifer Kiosks, antoa, p. 26. 



1 6 ad. Bang Nara, Patani, Peninsular Siara. 1 Aug 191G 

 [No. 2498]. 



1 9 ad. Pak Nam Chnmpon, S. W. Siara. 7 July 1914. [No. 2551]. 



Both obtained by Messrs. Williamson and Smith's collectors. 



Measurements of No. 2551: — Head and body, 195; tail, 190; 

 hind foot, s. u., 41 ; ear, 27. Skull: — greatest length, 45.5, condylo- 

 basilar length, 37.5; palatilar length, 18.0; diastema, 12.2 ; upper 

 molar-row (alveoli) 6.9; median nasal length, IS.O; interorbital breadth, 

 6.3; zygomatic breadth, 20.0. 



36. Nyctocleptes cinereus. 



liJiiznmi/s cinereus McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist., ii, 1842, 

 p. 356 (Tenasserim); Wroughton, .loiitn. Honihay N. H. Soc, 

 xxiii, p. 71C. (1915). 



Ilhiziimiji eriillirogenjs i\n([ov^m\,Vvoc. X^At. Sot-. Bengal, 1877, 

 p. l.oO; itl. Anat. ami Zoul. Res., p. 324, plate xiii, A. (Salwin 

 Hill Tracts ami 'l"enassei-im). 



1 6 juv., 1 2 juv. Mee Taw Forest, llaheng. Central Siam, 

 2500 ft. 18 December 1913. Mr. C. S. Barton [Nos. 2616-7J, 



Two very young bamboo-rats with the anterior cheek-tooth 

 only just showing were dug with the mother and three others out of a 

 burrow among the roots of bamboos. 



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