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saw many whole fields completely devastated, so much so as to pre- 
vent the farmers from paying their rents. The ryots employed the 
Wuddurs to destroy them, who killed them by thousands, receiving a 
measure of grain for so many dozens, without perceptibly diminishing 
their numbers. Their flesh is eaten by the Tank-diggers. The female 
produces six to eight at a birth.”—‘ AZadras Journ. Lit. Sc.’ x. 1839. 
Kellaart’s Golunda Newera is, I fancy, the same, although the measure- 
ment he gives is less. Head and body, 34 inches; tail, 23. The 
description tallies, although Kellaart goes upon difference in size and 
the omission of Gray to state that G. me/tada had the upper incisors 
groved. He says that “this rat is found in pairs in the black soil of 
Newara Elia, and is a great destroyer of peas and potatoes.” So its 
habits agree. 
GENUS HAPALOMYS. 
This was formed by Blyth on a specimen from Burmah of a murine 
animal “with a long and delicately fine pelage and exceedingly long 
tail, the terminal fourth of which is remarkably flattened and furnished 
with hair more developed than in perhaps any other truly murine form ; 
limbs short, with the toes remarkably corrugated underneath ; the balls 
of the inguinal phalanges greatly developed, protruding beyond the 
minute claws of the fore-feet, and equally with the more developed 
claws of the hind-feet ; head short ; the ears small and inconspicuous ; 
the skull approaches in form that of Mus Jndicus,* but the rodential 
tusks are broader and flatter to the front. Molars as in the Muride 
generally, but much worn in the specimen under examination; they 
are considerably less directed outward than usual, and the bony palate 
has therefore the appearance of being narrow ; the superorbital ridges 
project much outward in form of a thin bony plate, and there is a con- 
siderable process at the base of the zygoma anteriorly and posteriorly 
to an anti-orbital foramen ; zygomata broad, and compressed about the 
middle.” 
No. 380. HAPALOMYS LONGICAUDATUS. 
Hasirat.—Shway Gheen, in the valley of the Sitang river in Burmah, 
or its adjacent hills. 
Description.—‘“ Fur long and soft, measuring about five-eights of 
an inch on the upper parts, slaty for the basal two-thirds, then glistening 
brown with black tips, and a few long hairs of very fine texture inter- 
spersed ; lower parts dull white ; whiskers black, long and fine, and there 
is a tuft of fine blackish-hair anterior to ie ears.’ —Biyth. 
S1zE.—Head and body of a male, 52 inches; tail 74 inches. Of 
* Nesokia Blythiana. 
