SOME NEW INDIAN RODENTS. 



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The following fig'ures show the two characteristic types of palate 

 formation in this gronp of Genera (for details see tafele above). 

 The figures are double natural size. 



Ceemnomys cutchicus, Wrotighton. Giiypomys gleadowi, Murray. 



I have used, above, the expression '• honj palate produced back- 

 wards" as a convenient description of the formation referred to, it 

 is, however, not technically correct ; the effect is not so produced 

 but by the ' roofing in ' of the posterior nares, by the partial 

 drawing together of the margins of the mesopterygoid fossa. 



The plate is intended to illustrate life-size, representatives of the 

 four genera. Unfortunately Museum specimens, especially those 

 prepared by amateurs, rarely reproduce exactly the natural size of 

 the animal, the body skin being almost always stretched. In the 

 present case Millardia and Gremnomys are only slightly too large, 

 and the size of the others may be very fairly correctly deduced 

 from the proportionate size of their feet. 



Oremnomys cutchicus, sp. n. 

 The Gutch Bock-Bat. 



In size, fur, and colour resembling Millardia meltada, but at 

 once distinguishable from that species by its remarkably long tail 

 and long fifth hind toe. 



