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nary Malacca specimens, I have no hesitation in following Dr. Cantor 

 in regarding them as one and the same species. 



The Andaman animal, with its extraordinarily large canines, may 

 prove to he different ; but it is likely that we shall soon receive a 

 skin of it, that would help to decide the question. It is the species 

 which has been lately noticed in various Indian Journals as " a sort 

 of Mungoose" and " a kind of wild Cat ;" and it is the only one as 

 yet discovered in the Andaman islands appertaining to the Linnsean 

 order Ferce. 



Mrs (Leggada ?) asdamaneksis, nobis, n. s. The indigenous Eat 

 of the Andamans, — a gigantic representative of the group Leggada, 

 Gray, founded on the Mrs platttheis, Bennett, and M. lepidus, 

 Elliot, and to which my M. sriNULOSUS (J. A. S. XXIII, 734), ob- 

 tained both in the Panjab and in S. Malabar, is likewise referable. 

 Size about half that of full-grown Mus decumanus, with tail fully 

 as long as in that species ; the colour of tbe upper-parts a shade or 

 two darker, and of the lower-parts pure white. Form more slender, 

 and the limbs proportionally less robust, tban in M. decumanus. 

 Fur much coarser and conspicuously spinous, with a few long black 

 fine hairs intermixed ; passing the hand along the fur in a backward 

 direction, a very audible crackling sound is produced. The flat spines 

 are similar in character to those of my Prickly Dormouse from Mala- 

 bar (Plataca^thomts LAsruRTJS, J. A. S. XXVIII, 289), but are very 

 much weaker ; and the fur of the under-parts is soft. In fact this specie9 

 is a magnified representative of M. spinulosus, but with the rodent 

 tusks proportionally much more robust ; the two holding the relation- 

 ship of Eat and Mouse towards each other. Length 8 or 9 in. and 

 tail ecpual to the head and body ; hind-foot with claws If in. : ear- 

 conch (posteriorly) f in. Length of dorsal spinous fur f in. ; the 

 spines being whitish on their basal half, and there is a soft dark 

 ashy felt below the surface. 



Mus 1TA2TEI, Gray. Taken from the stomach of a venomous Snake 

 from Port Blair ; but too far softened by digestion to permit of the 

 species being determined with absolute accuracy. (A good specimen 

 has since been received entire in spirit.) 



Sirs axdajianensis, nobis (J. A. S. XXVII, 267, XXVIII, 271). 



