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On 
new Indo-Malayan Rats. 
Rattus bandahara, sp. n. 
Type. Adult 2 (skin and skull). Collected on Kina Balu, 
British North Borneo, in October 1892, by A. H. Everett. 
B.M. no. 93. 4. 1. 12. 
The representative in the highlands of North Borneo of 
the Malayan Rattus surifer (Miller), but rather larger and 
with more cinnamon-buff on the thighs; a strongly marked 
zine-orange gorget. 
Differs from Rattus rajah in having the white of the belly 
quite cut off from the feet by the rich colour of the thighs 
and by having the base of the fur clear grey, not brown. 
Pelage generally more woolly and the spines fewer and more 
flexible. 
Skull much as in R&R. surifer, the nasals not prolonged 
backwards beyond the fronto-maxillary suture as in R. rajah 
and L. pellax (Miller). 
Dimensions of type :—Hind foot (measured wet) 41°5 mm. 
Skull: condylo-basilar length 37°8 ; diastema 12°3; upper 
molar series (alveolar) 6°3 ; palatal foramina 6°8 x 4°0 ; least 
interorbital breadth 71; zygomatic breadth 20°0; median 
length of nasals 16°0; breadth of nasals anteriorly 4°8 mm. 
Specimens examined.—Three; the type, another adult, and 
a more immature specimen, all from Kina Balu. 
Remarks.—Al\l the large Malaysian land areas (Malay 
Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and to a less extent Java) 
possess each their representative form of the numerous indige- 
nous rats which occur throughout the region. It has hitherto 
been assumed that &. pellaz was unrepresented in Borneo, 
while Jt. rajah was the representative of the mainland 
kk. surifer, L.rajahis, however, the form allied to &. pellaz, 
while the above-described race is that representative of 
RR. surifer. 
Rattus panglima, sp. n. 
Type. Adult ¢ (skin and skull). Collected on Palawan 
by A. H. Everett. B.M. no. 94. 2.1.11. 
The local representative of 2. surifer (Miller), from which 
it differs in the extremely dull colour above, free from any 
tinge of zinc-orange, inclining to lavender on the sides. A 
narrow line of white joins the underparts to the feet. Under- 
fur apparently grey, but pelage much degraded. 
Skull asin R. surifer, but the nasals very broad anteriorly 
and rapidly contracting. 
Dimensions of type: —Hind foot (measured wet) oa mm. 
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