MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 715 



( 51) Epimts bufescens, Gray. 



The Common Indian Rat. 



(Synonymy in No. 1.) 



Variety with white underparts — 



(S 26, $ 22, Victoria Point ; c? 4, $ 2, Victoria Island ; S 8, 

 $ 7, Bankachon ; d 2, $ 3, Maliwun ; d^ 6, $ 8, Tenasserim 

 Village ; (^ 3, $ 3, Thaget ; d 14, $ 8, Tagoot; $1, Banlaw. 

 ( See also Reports Nos. 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16 ). 



" Plentiful everywhere, particularly around houses or near cultivation. 

 The average tail measurements were considerably less than in specimens 

 from Upper Burma, being often less than that of the head and body 

 (although one or two individuals No. 4392, etc., from Victoria Point — 

 probably recently imported specimens — had tails of the normal length). 

 The mammary formula is not always constant, it not being at all uncommon 

 to find uneven numbers— this irregularity was always noticed in the pectoral 

 mammee. 



Weight.— 3i-5f oz. 



Vernacular name — Tikos (Malay, Bankachon) (all rats and mice)." — 

 G. 0. S. 



(62) Epimys concolok, Blyth. 



llie Little Burmese Rat. 



(Synonymy in No. 16.) 



(^4, 51, Victoria Point; c? 1, $ 1, 9 (not sexed) Maliwun. 

 c? 2, $ 5, Tenasserim Village ; j 3, Thaget. 

 " Plentiful in the township of Maliwun and Victoria Point, apparently 

 not occurring in the forest village of Bankachon. Entirely a house rat. 

 Weight.— H ozs."— G. C. S. 



(53) Epimys vooipekans. Mill. 



The Long-tailed Malay Spiny Rat. 



1900. Mus vociferans, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XIIl., p. 138. 

 S^, $ 1, Victoria Island ; (5 2, $ 1, Bankachon. 



A large rat, ( head and body nine inches) with a very long, bicoloured 

 tail (14 inches). Ochraceous colouring resembling that of surifer,im: very 

 much less spiny than in that species. 



" Plentiful on Victoria Island, the specimens were trapped on rocky 

 ground, in thick forest, close to running water. Those from Bankachon 

 were obtained in similar situations. 



Weight.— 9-12 ozs."— G. C. S. 



(54) Epibiys validus. Miller. 

 The Large Malay Rat. 



? 1891. Mus boioersi, Blanford. Mammalia No. 276 (partnn). 



1900. Mus validus, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIII, p. 145. 

 cJ 1, $ 1, Thaget. 



The type locality is Trong. Though somewhat closely resembling 

 Anderson's boioersi externally, it is, as Miller points out, an entirely dis- 

 tinct species, its closest known relative being apparently infraluteus, Thos. 

 from Borneo. 



