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In genex'al external appearance Dacnomys millardi is veiy like the 

 Tenasserim E2?imys validus, but there is nothing resembling it in 

 India. I may not.e that in the original description of Mus hoversi, 

 Anderson, a length of the molars series is given which nearly cor- 

 responds with that in Dacnomys, bnt this is evidently a misprint, 

 as is evident by the measni'ements and figure of the skull given 

 later by Sclater. 



This fine animal forms the foiirth new genus of Muridas discover- 

 ed in India by the Bombay Society's Survey, and is by far the most 

 striking of all. Even as a species, that a new rat nearly a foot in 

 length should be discovered near so well known a place as Darjiling 

 is sufficientl}^ astonishing, but that it should represent a new genus 

 makes it a zoological discovery of ver}^ special interest. I havf^ 

 connected with this remarkable animal the name of Mi. W. S. 

 Millard, to whose keenness, energy and generositj^ the Bombay 

 Society's Survey so largely owes the great success it has attained. 



2. A NEW KAT ALLIED TO EpiMYS SABANUS, FROM DaRJILING. 



In company with the two specimens of Dacnomys wMlardi above 

 described, and like them captured by Mr. Lister's coolies, the collec- 

 tion contains a single example of a fine rat representing the JEpimys 

 sahanus group, not hitherto known from any nearer localit)'' than 

 Trong, in the Malay Peninsular, whence E.vociferans was described. 



I would propose to name this handsome and unexpected addition 

 to the Indian Fauna 



Epimys Usteri, sp. n. 



Like E. vociferans but darker in colour. 



Size large as compared with most Indian rats, though smaller 

 than in E. boiversi. Fur crisp, not strongly spinous, though mixed 

 with liattened bristles about ^mm. in breadth and 15 ram. in length. 

 General colour characters as usual in sahanus and its allies, that is 

 with a more or less fulvous body, sharply contrasted pale underside and 

 long tail wath lighter end. Dorsal colour however darker than in the 

 other species, approaching " mars brown ", with but little fulvous 

 suffusion and much blackish lining, sides paler brown ; undersiirface 

 sharply defined creamy white, the hairs white to their bases. Head 

 "greyer than back. Ears large, grey brown, practically naked. Fore 

 limbs greyish brown in front down to the middle line of the 

 metacarpals, digits, sides of metacarpus, and inner aspect of arm 

 white. Hind limb of similar pattern, but the white less extended, 

 confined to the tips of the toes, the edges of the metatarsus and a 

 comparatively narrow line down the front side of the leg, leaving 

 its inner side brown. Tail much longer than head and body, 

 though not so excessively long as in B. sahanus, above brown for 



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