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CCELOMYS MAYORI, Sp. n. 



Size about as in some of the smaller "Eats," such as Upimys concolor, 

 larger than in any member o^Mus or Lecjgadilla. Fur rather long 

 (about 10 mm, on the back), fine, profusely mixed with spines, the 

 latter not very stiff, about \-^ mm. in breadth. Colour of upper 

 sm-face uniform mummy brown, hairs tipped with buffy, the spines 

 greyish white tipped with black. Under surface soiled greyish or 

 brownish, the hairs slaty with brown or greyish tips. Face rather 

 darker. Ears of medium length, practically naked, grey. Hands 

 brown to the metacarpals or basal phalanges, the terminal phalanges 

 abruptly and prominently white ; feet wholly dark brown above, or 

 the extreme tips of the toes white. Tail ranging from rather shorter 

 to rather longer than head and body, finely scaled (15-16 rings to 

 the centimeter), short-haired, not pencilled, dark brown above, white 

 below, the contrast not \qvj sharply defined. 



Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh : — 



Head and body 98 mm.; tail 102; hind foot 26 (range from 

 22-5); ear 17. Skull, greatest length 30 ; condylo-incisive length 

 27*5 (range from 25); zygomatic breadth 14 ; nasals 12*7; interor- 

 bital breadth 5; breadth of brain case 12-5; palatilar lengiih 13; 

 palatal foramina 5*7 ; upper molar series 4.-4. 



Hah. — Pattipola, highlands of Central Province, Ceylon, Alt. 6210.' 



Tyix.— Old, male B. M. No. 14, 12, 1, 7. Original No. 1038. 

 Collected 25th March 1914 by Major E. W. Mayor. Presented to 

 the National Museum by the Bombay Natural History Society. 

 Seventeen specimens, all from the same localit}^. 



'" Trapped on the summit level, in jungle " — E, W. M. 



Major Mayor is to be congratulated on his discovery of so strik- 

 ing an addition to the mammaLfatma of Ceylon, and I have much 

 pleasure in connecting his name with it. It is probably a very local 

 animal, as he did not meet with it elsewhere than at Pattipola. 



