34 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



References to other species previously attributed to Mus may be given here : — 



1841. — Mus adelaidensis, Gray, App. Grey's Trav. Aus., 1841, p. 410 = Mus 

 musculus, Gray, List Mamm. B.M., 1843, p. 111. 



*1881. — Mus alhertisii, Pet. & Dor., Ann. Mus. Civ., xvi, ]). 702 ; habitat, 

 Sorong, Papua. 



*1881. — Mus beccarii, Pet. & Dor., Ann. Mus. Civ., xvi, p. 700 ; habitat, 

 Sorong, Papua. This name is antedated by Mus beccarii, 

 Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus., ii, note iii, p. 11, 1879. 



l8Sl.—Mus burtoni, Ramsay, P.L.S. N.S.W., 2, p. 553, plate xvii. 1892.— 

 Ogilby, Cat. Austr. Mamm., p. 107 ; habitat, Derby, North- 

 western Australia. Oldfield Thomas states that this species " does 

 not appear to be determinable from the description." 



1884.^ — -Mus castaneus, Higgins & Petterd, Roy. Soc. Tas., 1883, p. 183. 



1884. — Mus pachyurus, Higgins & Petterd, Roy. Soc. Tas., 1883, p. 182. 



The position of these two species is uncertain, but Oldfield 

 Thomas, until further material is forthcoming, is incUned to 

 associate them with his velutinus or with fuscipes, Waterh. 



*1911. — Mus doboensis, Beaufort, Abh. Senckenberg Ges., p. 112 ; habitat, 

 Dobo Is., Aru Group. 



1882. — Mus griseocceruleiis, Hig. & Pet., Roy Soc. Tas., p. 173. Oldfield 

 Thomas considers this a synonym of E. rattus. 



*1880.— ifws huegeli, Thomas, P.Z.S., p. 12 ; habitat, Fiji Islands. 



1871. — Mus novcB'ZelandicB, Buller, Tr. N. Z. Inst., iii, p. 1, pi. 4 ; Hutton, 

 loc. cit. xi, 1878, p. 344. = E. rattus. 



1867. — Mus personatus, Krefft, P.Z.S., 1867 ; Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. His., 

 xvii, 1906, p. 84, " probably belongs to Mus." 



1904. — Mus petterdi, Troues., Cat. Mamm. Suppl., p. 373, new Tiame for Mus 

 tetragonus, Higgins and Petterd, Pr. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1883, p. 195 ; 

 habitat, Tasmania. 



In 1851 a rodent with a four-sided tail Avas described, but not 

 named, in Pr. Roy. Soc. Van Diemen's Land, i, p. 176. 



1882. — Mus simsoni, Hig. & Pet., Pr. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1881, p. 175 ; habitat, 

 Tasmania. Oldfield Thomas marks this as equal to 3Ius musculus. 



1884.— Jf us tamarensis, Hig. & Pet., Pr. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1883, p. 185. This 

 species was " withdrawal" by the describers as ''a variety of 

 the common introduced European form." 



Mus tasmaniensis, Krefft (Fauna of Tasmania, p. 3, 1868), was never described. 



In Mitchell's " Expeditions to Austraha" (1838), vol. i, p. xvii, the names are 

 given of 31 us platurus and 3Ius hovellii of Mitchell, said to have been " deposited in the 

 AustraUan Museum at Sydney." I am indebted to Mr. Allan R. McCuUoch for the 

 information that in the Australian Museum '' there is no entry of such species, or any 

 specimens which could be identified as representing them," in Secretary Palmer's 

 register, compiled about 1877. The names are merely nomina nuda. 



The writer desires to acknowledge obhgations to Oldfield Thomas, of the British 

 Museum, for his courtesy in giving in correspondence valuable information on several 

 of the above species. 



