234 J. Anderson — On the Suh-Gcnm Nesokia. 



nearly resemble the bandicoot of Ceylon. The Manbhiim rats have many 

 greyish piles interspersed among the dark brown hairs, but this seems to 

 be only a local variation of no importance. Their skulls agree with the 

 skulls of the bandicoots from Guna, for which I am indebted to 

 Dr. A. Barclay, and are not separable specifically from them. Althouo-h 

 these Guna rats and also the bandicoots from the south of the Godavari 

 are the exact counterparts in external appearance of the Ceylon rats, the 

 skulls of the latter have remarkably different nasals from the rats of Guna 

 and Manbhum, being much narrower and more posteriorly pointed, and 

 moreover the muzzle of the skull is narrower and not so long. Allowance 

 however, must be made for variation, especially in insular examples of a 

 species, and I am, therefore, disposed to regard the foregoino- differences 

 observable in tlie species of the Ceylon bandicoots in this light. 



Description of Plates. 



Plate XIII, Mus {N.) hlytJiianus : a, upper view of skull oi a S • nat 

 size : h, under view of same skull : c, side view of same skull : d teeth 

 of right upper jaw and teeth of right lower jaw, enlarged 

 Mus {]^.) lorovidens : e, upper view of skull of M. iV. providens nat. 

 size : /, under view of same skull : y, side view of same skull : h 

 teeth of right upper and lower jaws, enlarged. 



Mus (N.) harcloyanus : i, upper view of skull : j, under view of skull • 

 k, side view of skull : /, teeth of right upper and lower jaws, enlaro-ed. 



Plate XIV, Mus (JSf.) giganteiis : a, upper view of skull : h, under view of 

 skull : c, side view of skull : d, 1, teeth of right upper jaw, enlarged ; 

 d, 2, teeth of right lower jaw, enlarged. 



Mus (TV.) elliotanus : e, upper view of skull : /, under view of skull • 

 y, side view of skull : 7i, right upper and lower teeth, enlaro-ed. 



