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entire district. While at Dharwar I never found the species so plentiful 

 as Tatera ox Gunomys, although there is no doubt that at times it becomes 

 a plague."— G.C.S.] 



Gunomys kok, Gray. 



The Southern Mole-Hat. 



(Synonymy in No. 1.) 

 ^ 23, 66, 91, 260, 261 ; 2 63, 64, 65, 90, 92, 93, 262, 263. 



Dharwar. 

 ^ 173, 175; 9 162, 171, 172. Devikop, Dharwar. 

 ^ 351, 354, 355, 364, 380, 381, 382, 450; 9 305, 352, 353, 356, 



363, 366, 366, 417. Gadag, Dharwar. 

 ^ 605 ; 9 604, 620, 685. Hawsbhavi, S. Dharwar. 

 (*See also Reports 1 and 4.) 

 Vernacular names. — Koka, lUkoka (Kanarese.) ; Urpunigooka (Haran 

 Shikaris). 



[ " Although not in quite such enormous numbers as Tatera, this species 

 probably comes second here as a destroyer of crops. Occurs everywhere 

 both in open cultivation, and the thickest forest ; its existence being 

 always indicated by the mole-hill like mounds which it throws up. They 

 are extremely savage and when in confinement will jump at, and attempt 

 to bite, anything that comes near them, at the same time giving a series of 

 angry grunts." — G. C S.] 



BaNDICOTA MAIABARICA, ShaW. 



The Malabar Bandicoot. 

 1801. Mu.s malabaricus, Shaw. Gen. Zool., p. 54. 



1839. Mus (Neotoma) giganteus, Elliot. Madr. Jour. Land. S., p. 209. 

 1891. Nesooia bandicota, Blanford. Mammalia No. 296 (partim). 

 $ 144, 190, 193 ; $ 167, 204. Devikop, Dharwar. 

 9 223. Dharwar. 



9 760, 771, 813. Samasgi, S. Dharwar. 

 These certainly represent Elliot's Neotoma gigantea, but they seem most 

 like the Travancore form. Compare my paper on the Bandicoots in this 

 Journal (Vol. XVIII, p. 747). 



Vernacular names. — Heggana (Kanarese) ; Ghus, Ghoiis (Marathi and 

 Dekhani) ; Phersakoka (Waddars). 



[" Chiefly frequenting stables and outhouses, where they are said to be 

 very destructive in undermining floors. The habits of the Java Bandicoot 

 were entirely diflferent, it lived in rice fields and was fond of water. 



This rat (as well as Funambulus, Tatera and even Simla) is said to be 

 very liable to bubonic plague, and occasionally to be found dead in numbers 

 from that cause.' — G. C. S.J 



