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If a very old specimen from Bageswar, darker coloured and more 

 spinous than the type, is as I suppose referable to the same species, 

 the mammae may be recorded as 3 — 2=10, while they are 4 — 2 

 = 12 in both L. sadhu and platythrix. 



Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh : — 



Head and body 82 mm.; tail 73 ; hindfoot 18 ; ear 14-5. 



Skull, greatest length 25 ; condjdo-incisive leng^th 23-7 ; greatest 

 breadth 11*8; nasals 9-9; interorbital breadth 3-8; palatilar length 

 11.6 ; upper molar series 4.4. 



Ilahitat. — Kumaon. Type from Jerna, Ramnagar, 1,600'; another 

 specimen from Ramnagar, 1,100', while the older specimen above 

 referred to came from Bageswar, 3,200'. 



Tyi^e. — Adult male, B. M. No. 14. 12. 1. 1. Original number 

 4,349. Collected 24th January 1914 by 0. A. Crump and present- 

 ed by the Bombay Natural Histor}^ Society. 



While the Jerna and Ramnagar specimens are quite like 

 L. sadhu in their pale fawn colour, that from Bageswar is as dark as 

 L. platythrix, but will probably prove to be exceptional in this 

 respect. Its mammary formula, 3—2=: 10, will in any case distin- 

 guish it from the older known species. 



Hodgson's Mus cervicolor, somewhat similar in colour to L. gurhha, 

 is unquestionabh^ a M'us and not a Leggadilla. 



NOTES ON VANBELBURIA 



BY Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by 'permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.^ 



The inclusion of a number of Tree-mice, belonging to two differ- 

 ent forms, in the Survey's collection from Kumaon has induced 

 me to make a further study of the genus Vandeleuria, which had 

 already attracted the attention of Mr. Wroughton and Miss Ryley. 



The members of this genus would seem to be divisible into two 

 groups by size, this being most correctly gauged by the length of 

 the molar tooth-row, the size of the skull itself being sometimes a 

 little deceptive. In the larger forms the tooth-row is about 3-4 to 

 3-6 mm. in length, while in the smaller one it ranges from 3-0 to 

 3-3. 



In the Western parts of India, Bombay and the Western Ghats, 

 two forms are to be found, a large and a small, the large one rang- 

 ing from Kolaba, near Bombay, down the Chats, through Coorg to 

 the Nilgiri Hills, whence a specimen was named Mus nilagiricus 

 by Jerdon. To this form Miss Ryley assigned the original 

 V. oleraoea of Sykes, from the "Deccan," basing her conclusions on the 

 size of the skull of the type. But unfortunately that type is a very 

 old specimen with an overgrown skull, and its teeth show that it 



