84 Miscellaneous. 



Family Tylides. — Tylos, Lat., 12 sp. Family Si/spastidce. — Si/s- 

 pastiis, B.-L. (1879),= Helleria, Ebnor (1868), 1 sp. It has already 

 been intimated that the name Helleria must be restored to this 

 geuns, Ebner having priority of publication over the other authors 

 who have proposed the same name for different genera. 



The total number of species described is 40-1: or 410, of which 

 312 or 316 are good species and 92 or 94 are species unknown to 

 the author or reputed species. The total number of genera is 30 

 or (if some be accounted subgenera) 25. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Diagnoses of tliree new Oriental Mammals. 

 By Oldfield Thomas, Natural History Museum. 



1. Herpestes auropunctaUis hirmanicus, var. nov. 



Essential characters of H. aurojyunctatits, but hair shorter, colour 

 darker, and size markedly larger. Skull of type 62-7 millim. long 

 and 34 broad, as compared with 59*0 and 30*0 millim. in the type of 

 ff. auropunctatus ; head and body 392 millim. ; tail 214 ; hind 

 foot 55. 



Hah. Pegu {E. Oates) — type. Burma {B. O. Wardlaiv liam- 

 say) ; Dilkoosha, Cachar ( /. Inglis) ; Manipur {A. 0. Hume). 



2. Sciuropteriis Davisoni, sp. n. 



Slaty grey above, tipped Math orange, pale orange below. Tail 

 brown above, deep orange-rufous below. 



Allied to /S. lepidus, Horsf., and S. Pearsoni, Gr,, but distin- 

 guished from the first by its larger size, much larger and broader 

 ears, and brighter coloration ; from the second by its untuftcd ears : 

 and from both by its differently shaped skull and by the absence in 

 it of the small first upper premolar. Head and body 142 millim. ; 

 tail 172 ; hind foot 36. 



Hab. Malacca ( W. Davison). 



3. Mus Humei, sp. 



Externally similar in almost every respect to Golunda Ellioti, 

 Gray, but with the ungrooved incisors and narrow molars of true 

 Mus. Front edge of anterior zygoma-root concave, as in Mastacomys 

 fiiscHS, Thos., and some other Australian Muridae. Head and body 

 125 millim. ; tail 106 ; hind foot 25-0. 



Hab. Moirang, Manipur {A. 0. Hume). 



Figures and full descriptions of these new mammals will shortly 

 be published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society.' 



