362 ALU. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Apr. 3 



Hill, 22GU feet elevation, March 1896; two specimens from 

 Tanglin, Singapore, April 1896 ; one specimen from Pachim, 

 Siam, March 1897; one specimen from Paknam Menam, Siam, 

 August 1898 ; and I saw what I believe to be this species at 

 Pakpreo, Siam, in June 1897. 



Colour of Paknam specimen: — Upper surfaces pale rufous 

 brown, lower surfaces pure white, tail dark above and light below. 



Distribution. Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula. 



130. Mus decumanus Pall. " The Norway Eat." 



Mus decumanus, Cantor, p. 46; Blanf. Paun. Ind., Mamm. 

 p. 408. 



" Tikus " of the Malays (name applied to any species of rat). 



Cantor records this species from Penang and the Peninsula ; 

 Hanitsch (Eep. Eaffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 11) records it 

 from Singapore. In Siam I never saw this species alive or 

 trapped it, but three times found dead rats (which appeared to 

 be M. decumanus) in Bangkok, in each instance in that quarter 

 of the town where the foreign shipping lies along the wharfs. 



In Georgetown, Penang, this species is common ; it is rufous 

 brown above, buff below. 



Distribution. Cosmopolitan. 



131. Mus Museums Linn. The Common House-Mouse. 



Mus muscidus?, Cantor, p. 46; Blanf. Paun. Ind., Mamm. 

 p. 413. 



" Tikus ruma " (i. e. house-rat) of the Malays. 

 Cantor gives habitat " Pinang," and says : — " In colour, this 

 slightly differs from the European mouse, the upper parts being a 

 mixture of shining grey and tawny. The separate hairs are 

 leaden-grey at the base, then tawny with black apex ; some are 

 longer and uniformly dark brown. Beneath pale ash. The ears 

 are large, more than one-half the length of the head, with very 

 short hairs, rouuded, blackish. Toes, palms, and soles whitish. 

 Tail slender, dark-grey, with very short appressed brown hairs. 

 Length of the head aud body, two and five-eighth inches (67 mm.), 

 tail two and four-eighth inches (64 mm.)." 



Hanitsch (Eep. Eaffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 11) records this 

 species from Singapore. I obtained only three specimens of the 

 Common Mouse, two trapped in bouses in Singapore (Jan. & Dec. 

 1 896), and one picked up dead in the bazaar at Chantaboon 

 (Jan. 1898). There Mere none in the houses in which we lived, 

 in Bangkok, Kedah, or Penang. 



Of the second specimen from Singapore, Mr. Oldfield Thomas 

 writes to me: — " Very typical house specimen, with brown meta- 

 podials but white fingers and toes, a very characteristic coloration." 

 Distribution. Cosmopolitan. 



132. Nesocia sp. inc. Bandicoot Eat. 



At least one species of Nesocia occurs in the Malay Peninsula, 



