.\S44 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL JUST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXI. 



Manis crassicaudata, G. St. Hil. 

 The Indian Pangolin. 

 1803. Manis crassicaudata, G. St. Hilaire. Cat. Mamm., p. 213. 

 1834. Manis indicus, Lesson. Suite. Mamm., IV., p. 520. 

 1842. Manis (Phataffis) laticauda, Sundevall. Vet. Ak. Handl., p. 258. 

 1872. Pholidotus bengalensis, Fitzinger. S. B. Ak. Wien., p. 64. 



6 315. Bhuj, Cutch. 

 The name pentadactyla which was based on an animal from Formosa 

 must be reserved for the Chinese Pangolin, as must hrachyura for the same 

 reason. 



Vernacular name — Chhalo. (JT. K. the Rao.) 



Collection ... No. 4. 



Locality . . . Nimar. 



Date ... ... November-December. 



Collected by ... Mr. C. A. Crump. 



( No. 1, E. Khandesh, Vol. XXI, p. 392. 



Earlier Reports ... < No. 2, Berars, Vol. XXI, p. 820. 

 ( No. 3, Cutch, Vol. XXI, p. 826. 

 Nimar, the district in which the present collection was made, 

 is on the Satpura Plateau, about 2P-30' N. Latitude, and 76°-20' 

 E. Longitude. The soil is the Dekhan trap. The country is 

 much broken up into ranges of low hills. These are covered with 

 the usual Satpura tree growth of Bostfellia and HarchvicJda, the 

 intervening cultivation being mostly of Jawari. The annual rain- 

 fall is about 32 inches. The climate and topography of this 

 -district are sufficiently like those of E. Khandesh and the Berars 

 to render it probable that it would carry much the same Fauna, 

 -and though a few species were obtained here for the first time, 

 they were such as might, equally well, have been taken in either 

 ■or both of the other localities. 



The collection includes 170 specimens belonging to 27 species, 

 in 22 genera; of these 4 are new to the list of species obtained by 

 Mr, Crump so far, and one is new to science. Amongst the more 

 interesting things are the two small shrews and the new mouse. 



The forii:er I have allotted to two species with considerable doubt. 

 The Pachytira group of shrews, with 1 8 upper teeth, are found all 

 over the plains of India and are represented by one species in 



