NO. 1402. 



NEW PHILIPPINE MAMMALS— MEARNS. 



451 



CharaetevH. — Those of the genus. Tail slig-htl y palest below , scantily 

 coated with tine short hairs which nowhere conceal the annuli, which 

 number about nine to the centimeter. 



(/'olor. — Dorsal area, from forehead to rump, clovn? brown, man}^ of 

 the hairs tipped or i-inged with tawny-olive, and with pelage slate 

 color at base; sides hair brown, thickly mixed with tawny-olive rings 

 and tips to the hairs, the pelage smoke gray at l)ase; underparts yel- 

 lowish white, with the gray basal portion of hair appearing co])iously 

 along the sides; feet sepia brown above, except the toes, which are dirty 

 grayish white; claws Hesh coloi" at base tipped with horn color; whisk- 

 ers black, slightly mixed with grayish-white ones; tail purplish brown 

 above, perceptibl}'^ paler and faintly rufescent below. 



Skull and tectli. — The molars are rooted as follows: Anterior u])per 

 molar 5-rooted; middle upper molar i-rooted; posterior upper molar 

 2-rooted, the roots exhibiting a tendency to bifurcation. 



Reiiiarl'. — The unique specimen was snared by a native, who brought 

 it and a tine specimen of Mus mindcmensis to me on the trail as I was 

 leaving the Bagobo village of Todaya. 



Cranial measurements of the type, an adult female, from Tudaya, Mindanao. 



Measurement. 



Basilar length (Hensel) 



Occipito-nasal length 



Greatest interparietal breadth 



Interparietal breadth, measured from outer edge of froiito-parietal ridges 



Zygomatic breadth 



Length of internasal suture 



Length of audital bulla 



Width of audital bulla 



Length of upper tootlirow 



Distance between anterior molars 



Distance between po.sterior molars 



No. 125248, 



U.S.N.M., 



type. 



46 



58 



21.6 



16.5 



27 



23.3 



10 



7 

 10 



4 



4.6 



External measurements of the type {from well-made skin). 



Measurement. 



Head and body 



Scaly portion of tail (end apparently gone) 



Hind foot 



Longest whisker 



No. 125248, 



U.S.N. M., 



type. 



275 

 128 

 54 

 76 



LIMNOMYS, new genus. 

 MAESH-RATS. 



Type. — Liinnomys sihuanus, new species. 



Char'acters. — Resembles 3[us. Skull relative!}^ broad and high, 

 with flattened audital bullae; supraorbital beading slight, l)ecoming 

 obsolete on front of parietals; teeth of type and only specimen too 



