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The under fur is yqvj sparse, of a buff colour. The dorsal hairs 

 are very short (30-35mm.), a yellowish-white colour, with four 

 narrow (3-4nim.) rings, and a short tip, of a deep. black brown, as 

 in ellioti. As in mungo, the soles are bare to the heels. 



Dimensions of the type: — Head and body, 380; tail, 316; 

 nindfoot, 76; ear, 27'5. Skull: — Condylo-incisive length, 80 ; 

 zygomatic breadth, 41-5. In general shape the skull is quite like 

 that of mungo. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, the Type from Cheddikulam. 



Type. — Adult female, B. M. No. 15. 3. 1. 54. Original number 

 664. Collected by Major Mayor, on the 12th November 1913. 

 Presented to the National Collection by the Bombay Natural 

 Histoiy Society. 



I. — On some specimens of Vandeleuria from Bengal, 

 Bihar and Orissa. 



BY 



Oldfield Thomas. 



{Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



After the notes written last year in this Journal* about 

 VandeleuHa it has been with much interest that I have examined a 

 small series prepared by Mr. Crump in Bihar and Orissa during his 

 Survej^ work. 



At Lohra, Hazaribagh, on the plateau at an altitude of 1,000', 

 he obtained the single specimen which I provisionally referred to 

 v. oleracea, a reference which I should now confirm, though the 

 teeth are a little larger than those of the type and of other speci- 

 mens from Ahmednagar. The condylo-incisive length of the skull 

 is 20'9 mm., and the molars 3*4 mm. In colour this specimen is 

 sandy fawn, rather less warmlj^ buffy than is usual in oleracea, but 

 the difference is of little importance. External dimensions : — 

 Head and body, 76 mm.; tail, 123; hindfoot, 18; ear, 16. 



But in Chaibassa, in a region where Mr. "Wroughton tells me the 

 country is much more heavily forested, Mr. Crump collected a series 

 of Tree-mice which, while still belonging to the small-toothed 

 V. oleracea, are of so different a colour that they evidently ought to 

 be distinguished as a local race. 



Vandelettria oleracea marica. subsp. n. 



Essential characters as in V. oleracea, but colour darker than in 

 either of its described sub-species. 



General colour above approaching russet-brown, decidedly darker 

 than the wood-brown of V. oleracea modesta, and still more different 



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