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also the Palaearctic region. Vandeleuria, Chiropodomys, Batomys, 
Carpomys are Oriental, the last two being confined to the 
Philippines. 
Another peculiar Philippine genus is Phlacomys, of large size, 
and allied to it is Crateromys, originally confounded with it. 
Latomys granti is also confined to Luzon. Its molars are three, 
hike those of the also restricted and Philippine Carpomys melan- 
urus, Which is an arboreal form. There is a second species, 
C. phaeurus. 
Phlaeomys is placed, however, by Mr. Thomas in a distinct 
sub-family of its own, Phlaeomyinae, and is removed from the 
Murinae. 
Hapalomys, with but one species, is Burmese. Pithecochirus is 
Fic. 235.—Spiny Mouse. <Acomys cahirinus. x4, 
Javanese and Sumatran. Conilurus (also known as Hapalotis) is 
a genus containing species which are termed Jerboa Rats, on 
account of their mode of progression. They are desert and 
Australian forms. There are sixteen species. 
Mastacomys, with one species, is limited to Tasmania. Uromys, 
with some erght species, is from Queensland, and inhabits also the 
Aru Islands and the,Solomon Islands. The Celebesian Echiothriz, 
or Craurothriz as it should apparently properly be called, is another 
genus containing but a single species. Golwnda is both Oriental 
and Ethiopian, one species occurring in each region. The beauti- 
ful little striped Barbary Mice, Arviacanthis (or Isomys), are 
African, north as well as tropical. 
The genus Saccostomus resembles the Hamsters in the presence 
of cheek pouches. Its teeth, however, are Murine. It agrees with 
Steatomys in the comparatively short tail. The caecum is rather 
long. 
