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I. Nesokia, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. IL x. p. 2(U (184:2). 



Type. Arvicola indica *, Gray & Ilardwicke. {Nesokia 

 Ilardwickei auctorum.) 



Skull short and broad. Palatal foramina short. Molars 

 laminate, least Mus-\\kQ. 



Mamm^ 2—2 = 8. 



II. GuNOMYstj gen, nov. 



Type. Arvicola hengcdennis, Gray & Ilardwicke. [Nesokia 

 hengalensis auct.) 



Skull broad. Palatal foramina long. 

 Mamnige irregular, 14-18 in number. 



III. BandicOTA, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xii. p. 418 



(187:3). 



Type. " Bandicota gigantea,^'' i. e. B. handicota, Bechst. 

 Skull comparatively long and narrow. Palatal foramina 

 long. Molars most Mus-Whd. 

 Mammai 3.^ — 3 = 12. 



These three genera are specialized in the order given, 

 Nesokia being the most extreme and the farthest from 

 J\lus, both in skull, tooth-structure, and external characters, 

 and Bandicota the nearest, while Gunomys is intermediate 

 between the other two. 



Nesokia snilla^ sp. n. 



Nesokia Bacheri, Nebriug, Anderson & de Wiuton, Zool. Egypt, 

 Mamra. p. 286, pi. L. (1902j. 



Closely allied to N. BaihvardiX, Distinguished from 

 N. Bacheri^ by smaller size and smaller bullte. 



Colour and other external characters as in N. Bailwardi. 



Skull, as compared with that of N^ Bailwardi, averaging 

 about the same size, but with various differences- in detail. 

 Zygomata more boldly expanded and forming a strongly 

 convex shoulder opposite their anterior root, those of N. Bail- 

 uardi evenly broadening outwards to their posterior part. 



* Bechstein's Mus indisns being now removed, as a Bandicota, from 

 the genus i\'e-so7i-?a, the specific term given by Gray and Ilardwicke again 

 becomes tenable for the animal usually Icnowu as Aesokia Hardwickei. 

 The same specimen (B.M. no. 99 a) is the type of both names. 



t yovvoi, fruitful, prolific. 



X iSupra, p. 199. 



§ Ur. Nehring (SB. Ges. nat. Fr. Berl. 1901, p. 219) states that the type 

 of Wagner's " Meriones myosuros,^' wliich is a Nesokia, is of the same 

 size as N. Bacheri. It would therefore be larger than either N. Bailwardi 

 or N. suilla, 



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