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B. nemorivaga. The Popa animal is still smallei- again, with veiy 

 «mall teeth, and may be said to represent an equally distinct third 

 gronp of the geims. It nia^- be called 



Bandicota savilei, sp. n. 



Size much smaller than in B. nemorivaya, not larger than in 

 ■certain Gunomys. Fin* coarse and harsh, with ver}' few elongated 

 bristles intermixed with it. General colour above coarsely grizzled 

 and lined grejdsh brown, more or less suffused with buffy down the 

 dorsal area, grej^er on the sides. Ordinary hairs with buffy or 

 creamy tips, the longer hairs blackish brown. Under surface grey, 

 the hairs light slaty basally, whitish terminally. Hands and feet 

 silvery whitish, with brown metapodials. Tail thinly haired, uni- 

 form dark brown above and below. Mammje 3 — 3=] 2, but two of 

 the available females have a supplementary pectoral mamma. 



Skull very different from that of B. nemorivacja by its much 

 smaller size, general narrowness and far smaller teeth. Nasals long 

 and narrow. Superorbital crest strongly developed, forming a 

 thickened bead in the postorbital region, and though less developed, 

 across the parietals. Palatal foramina of medium length, compara- 

 tively well open. Bullas of average size. 



Molars conspicuousl}^ smaller than in the other species of the 

 genus. 



Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh : — Head and bod}^ 

 240 mm. ; tail 230 ; hindfoot 43 ; ear 26-5. 



Skull: — Condylo-incisive (= greatest) length 52 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 28; nasals 19 x 5*8; interorbital breadth 6*8; breadth 

 between I'idges on parietals 11-5; palatilar length 27 ; palatal foramina 

 9 ; upper molars series 8*7 ; breadth of first molar 2-9. 



Hab. — Mount Popa, diVj zone of Burma. Alt. about 2,500', 

 " Plentiful in Popamyo village and possibly in most towns and 

 villages throughout the dry zone. '" — G.C.S. 



TijiDe. — Adult male. B. M. No. 14.7.19.211. Original number 

 3767. Collected 14th September 1913 by G. C. Shortridge. 

 Presented to the National Museum by the Bombay Natural History 

 Society. Twenty-three specimens. 



This striking species is at once distinguishable from the other 

 members of Bandicota by its smaller size and smaller teeth, and 

 might, on account of its general resemblance to a Gunomys and its 

 tendency to an increased number of mammse, be quoted as a reason 

 against my separation of the two genera from each other. But when 

 placed among Gunmnys skulls, as those of B. savilei actually Avere, 

 a further and quite essential difference between the two genera 

 becomes at once apparent, namely, that those of Bandicota are oi a 



