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'E'pimys herchnorei mullulus, subsp. n. IH 



Size smaller than in other forms. Colour apparently as in true 

 herchnorei, but as the specimen has been preserved in spirit, an 

 exact description of its colour is not possible. 



Tail brown above, scarcely lighter below ; its extreme end has 

 apparently been lost during life, and may have been either brown 

 or white, but was most probably the former. 



Skull smaller than in herdmorei, which in turn is smaller than 

 that of magnus • the shape rounder and more solidly built than in 

 the former, the muzzle and interorbital region proportionally • 

 broader. Bullae, while still of the large size found in this species 

 as compared with JE. onanipuhis, smaller than in magnus, those of 

 the true herdmorei unknown. Palatal foramina narrowed, far less 

 widely open than in the other forms. Molar teeth verj^ small. 



Dimensions of the type, measured on the spirit specimen : — 

 Head and body 170 mm. ; tail 140 + (<?) 5 ; hindfoot 33 ; ear 

 21-5. Skull, greatest length 39*2 ; condylo-incisive length 39 ; zygo- 

 matic breadth 21-8 ; nasals 14; interorbital breadth 6-8; palatilar 

 length 19' 7; palatal foramina 8; upper molar series 6'0. 



Hah. — Mtileyit Range, Tenasserim. Type from Thagata. 



Type.— Adult female in spirit. B. M. No. 16.2.16.1. Collected 

 b}^ L. Fea. Received in exchange from the Museo Civico, Genoa. 



While we have available for examination a verj^ fine series of the 

 northern E. manipmlus, the three sub-species now recognized of B. 

 herdmorei are only represented by a single specimen each, but these 

 are so different from each other b}'' the characters above recorded 

 that there can be no doubt they should have distinct varietal names. 



5. — A NEW Mouse from Sikkim. 



Thanks to the material obtained by Mr. Crump in Sikkim for the 

 Bombay Society's Survej^ I am now enabled to make a definite 

 determination of a mouse which has been known to us hj imper- 

 fect specimens for a very long time. It is the " Mus nitidulus " of 

 my paper on Indian Rats and Mice, 1881, (P. Z. S., 1881, p. 

 550), bub as was indicated when some Mt. Popa Muridce were 

 described recentty (Journ. Bombaj^ N. H. Society, XXIII, p. 30, 

 1914), is certainly not that species, and does not appear to be 

 referable to any known form. It maj^ be called 



Mus ]3ahari, sp. n. 



Size large, one of the largest species of restricted Mus. Fur 

 crisp, liberally mixed with spines ; hairs on back about 7-8 mm. in 

 length. General colour above greyish buffy, lined with blackish, 

 the tips of the ordinary" hairs buffy, of the spines black ; basal 

 seven-eighths of the fur slaty grey, but some of the specimens are 



