430 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST, SOCIETY, Vol. XXVIII, 
flaviventris by Robinson and Kloss, Records Ind. Mus., XV., p. 286, 1918, who 
say of a number of specimens from difterent localities, covering the ranges of 
two quite diflerent forms, that ‘‘ these specimens, which are more ochraceous 
and less ferrugineous than most specimens from Nepai, have been referred to in 
literature as S. subflaviventris.”’ That statement would again (if it had not 
been antedated by Horsfield’s) be a valid ‘‘ description ” of subflaviventris, but 
would remove the name from McClelland’s type, and baseit on a mixture of 
specimens from several localities. 
Now the type of “S. subflaviventris, McCl.’’ Horsf., has absolutely the pectoral 
colour of true lokriah, not that of the subspecies next to be described and must 
therefore have been originally obtained in the North Eastern part of “‘ Assam.” 
And in size of skull it entirely agrees with the form of the Mishmi Hills. Persons 
who do not accept my extreme view of what is to be taken as a “ description ” 
would equally reject Robinson and Kloss’s one as being valid, for it also was 
imperfect and unintentional and they should then accept the name from the 
present paper. 
The definite identification of this troublesome name is undoubteldy an 
advance in clearing up the synonymy of the group. 
In working out this Dremomys, the distinction from it of the Garo and Khasi 
Hills form now comes to light. The latter is clearly a separate subspecies, and 
may be called 
Dremomys lokriah garonum, subsp. n. 
Size about as in true lokriah, or slightly smaller. Colour above as in D. 1. 
bhotia, but below instead of the yellowish wash approaching ‘‘ orange ochrace- 
ous ” as it does in lokriah, bhotia and subflaviventris, it is far paler and more 
yellow, nearly matching Ridgway’s “‘ orange-buff ’”’. Buffy of underside narrow- 
ed below, as in subflaviventris, not as in bhotia. 5 
Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh :— 
Head and body 190 mm., tail 153 mm., hindfoot 45 mm., ear 20 mm. 
Skull, greatest length 50°5 mm., condylo-incisive length 44°2 mm., zygoma- 
tic breadth 27 mm. ; upper tooth series, exclusive of p® 8° 5 mm. 
Hab.—Garo and Gaintia Hills, Assam. Type from Tura, Garo Hills. Another 
specimen, apparently similar, from Rajapara, 8. Kamrup, on the Northern 
side of the Brahmaputra. 
Type.—Adult male. B. M. No. 21.1, 6.54 Original number 283. Collected 
25th February 1920 by H. W. Wells. Presented by the Bombay Natural History 
Society. Five specimens. 
Readily distinguishable by the paleness of its lower surface. 
Dacnomys wroughtoni, sp. n. 
A larger species than D. millardi, of warmer coloration. 
Size, as gauged by skull, decidedly larger than in millardi, though the feet 
are but little longer, their range of variation overlapping the foot-length of the 
single known specimen of millardi. General colour of upper surface a strong 
warm brown, near “‘ Prout’s brown, ”’ the ends of the ordinary hairs deep buffy. 
On the other hand D. millardi is a colder and more greyish or smoky brown, the 
light ends of the hairs inconspicuously drab. Undersurface lighter than upper 
but still usually of a warmer tone than in millardi, gular, axillary, and inguinal 
whitish patches usually absent, but present, quite as well developed as in the 
type of millardi, in one out of six specimens. Lars practically naked, brown. 
Hands brown on metacarpus, the digits lighter. Feet rather stouter than in 
millardi, similarly brown with lighter ends to the toes. Mamme 2-2=8. 
Skull similar in essential respects to that of millardi, but considerably larger, 
and the prominent supraorbital ridges heavier throughout, with the angular 
postorbital projections more conspicuously developed. 
Hab.—Mishmi Hills. Type from Dreyi ; alt. 6,000’. 
