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XXI. Description of a large Species of Bat, a Native of the East 

 Indies. By Captain Thomas Hardwicke, F.L.S. 



Bead February 7, 1804. 



I beg leave to offer to the notice of the Linnean Society a brief 

 description of a large species of rat, a native of the East Indies, 

 which is mentioned by the late Mr. Pennant, in his History of 

 Quadrupeds, (3d ed.) Volume II, No. 377- It is also noticed by 

 Dr. Shaw in his General Zoology, under the name of Mas malaba- 

 ricus*; but, as it is the largest of the known species of this genus, 

 and is not peculiar to the coast of Malabar, it may, perhaps, 

 with more propriety be named 



,MUS GIGANTEUS. 



Tab. XVIII. 



The nose is rounded; the under jaw much shorter than the upper: 

 cutting teeth broad, incurvated, compressed; the lower ones 

 measuring eight-tenths of an inch, and the upper four-tenths 

 in length. 



The ears naked, large, ovate, much rounded, erect, with the mar- 

 gins a little turned inwards. 



The body is thick, and much arched ; the upper part is most hairy 

 and black; the lower inclining to gray. 



* Mus griseus, auriculis rotundatis nudis, digitis plantarum exterioribus brevioribus. 

 Shaw's Zool. Vol. ii. Part i. p. 54. 



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