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:^rFRID.T;. 



Colour browD, not dark nor rafous, above, wbite or buffy white 

 below. Basal | of dorsal hair dark leaden grey, terminal portion 

 light brown (fawn-colour), passing into darker brown at the end. 

 A few longer black tips are scattered on the back. Ventral fur 

 white throughout, A dark mark generally on each hind foot, 

 remainder of the feet white. Tail dark throuefhout. 



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Dimensions of a male in spirit : head and body 3 inches, tail 4*5, 

 ear 0-6, hind foot 0-75. A skull measures 0-93 in length. 



Distribution. Khasi hills, Kakhyen hills, near Bhamo, Manipur, 

 Schwe Gryeng, Malacca, Java, and Borneo. 



Gemis MUS, Linn. (1766). 



Form slender. Muzzle pointetl ; tail long, scaly. Pur soft or 

 spin}^ the spines when present fine and mixed with hair. Pollex 

 rudimentary, Avith a small flat nail, all other toes (except in 

 M. chiroims) \A'ith compressed claws. 

 Molars tubercular in the young ; the 

 tubercles of the upper molars in a triple 

 longitudinal row, of the lower molars in 

 a double row. The teeth when worn 

 crossed by curved or folded transverse 

 laminae. Incisors smooth, not grooved 

 nor sculptured. Vertebrae : C, 7, D. 13. 

 L, 6, S. 4, C. 26-32. 



Thegeuus is cosmopolitan and is largely 

 represented in ludia. A great number 

 of specific names have been given by 

 ^•arious naturalists, and owing to im- 

 perfect descriptions, and to the diificulty 

 of comparing the types, many of which 

 were in England, Blyth in 'A Memoir 

 of the Eats and Mice of India,' published in 1863 (J, A, S. B. 

 xxxii, p. 327), could only collect togetlier the descriptions of 

 about 50 nominal forms and indicate their affinities. Jerdon 

 followed Blyth, and it was not until Thomas in 1881 re-examined 

 Gray's and Hodgson's types \\\t\\ the aid of a large collection of 

 Indian specimens that any important reduction of the overgrown 

 list of names could he effected. Some additional identifications of 

 Blyth's and Anderson's species have since been made by Mr. 

 Thomas, and a few more are now added by the examination of 

 some of Blyth's types, for the loan of which 1 am indebted to the 

 Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and to Mr, W. L. Sclater, 

 who has independently examined the series in the Calcutta Museum 

 aud has come to conclusions that agree with my own (P, Z, S. 

 1890, p. 522). In the present work, by the aid of several observers, 

 an attempt is made to identify all Indian, Ceylonese, and Burmese 

 species hitherto described. 



Fig. 131.— («) Upper and 

 {Ji) lower riglit molars of 



M. raituK (M. rufcseent;), 

 X 4. 



