1881.] INDIAN SPECIES OF MUS. 557 



Head and body 2-6 inches, tail 4-3, hind foot 071, forearm and 

 hand 0-9, ear-conch length 0"46, mnzzle to ear 075. 



I can find no difference of any importance between the types of 

 F. oleracea and V. diimeticola, Hodgs. ; and they appear to be 

 certainly of the same species. The " Miis dumecolus, specimen b," 

 of Gray's Catalogue of Hodgson's collection', quite agrees with the 

 latter's description of his Mus povensis, and is most probably the 

 actual type. 



Mus nilagmcus, Jerdon", may possibly turn out to be a second 

 species of this subgenus, but more probably is only a rather large 

 hill-form of this one. The head and body measures 3-5 inches, and 

 the tail 5. The colours seem to be much the same in the two forms. 



There now remains but one of Hodgson's species of Mus which I 

 have not referred to, namely M. myothrix \ In his ' Mammals of 

 India'* Jerdon has suggested that this species is related to Golunda 

 ellioti, Gr. On examining the type of M. myothrix, a very bad 

 skin, without the head, I find that there can be but little doubt 

 that it is a specimen of that species, as it possesses the peculiar 

 grooved spines and the hairy tail characteristic of G, ellioti, and 

 the colours and proportions appear to be quite the same. It is true 

 that the Gulandi has not hitherto been recorded so far north as 

 this ; but there is a specimen in the British Museum, obtained at 

 Dugshai ; so that there is nothing surprising in its being found 

 further east in Nepal. 



Hodgson has the following notes to his drawings of il^. myothrix : — 

 "Got at Kahiilia powa, in central region, about 6700 feet ;" and 

 " Found on mountain top, in a burrow, whence it was dug out."° 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate L. 

 Mus blanfordi. The type, a not fully adult female. 



Plate LI. 

 Figs. 1 & 2. Hind foot and palate-ridges of Miis jerdoni. 



3. Anterior zygoma-root of: — a, Mus alexandrinus; b, Mus fulvescens. 



4. Side view of the skull of Mus blanfardi, taken from a fully adult male 



specimen. 



5. Upper and under views of the skull of the same species. Taken froci 



the type. 



6. Eight hind foot of Mits blanfordi ( c? ). . 



7. Left ear of M. cervicolor, showing the measuring-points {a, b). 

 8 & 9. Skull and right hind foot of M. nitidulus. 



10. Teeth of Lcggada buduga, from ahove, taken from the type specimen. 



11. Side view of the first upper molars of two specimens of the same spe- 



cies, showing the variable character of the extra anterior cusp («). 



12. Eight hind foot of Leggada platythrix. 



13. Eight hind foot of Vandcleuria oleracea. 



13 a. Upper view of the fifth toe of the same foot, much enlarged, showing 

 the peculiar short nail characteristic of the subgenus Vandcleuria. 



1 1st ed. p. 18 (184fi). 2 Mamm. Ind. p. 203 (1867). 



2 Ann. & Mag. N. H. xv. p. 267 (1845). * Mamm. Ind. p. 214. 



' A full description of Golunda ellioti has been published by Mr. Blanford, 

 J. A. S. B. 1876, p. 165, and 1877, p. 292. 



