54 MAMMALIA. 



Mus huttoni, Blyth % A. S. B., xv, p. 139 (1846). 



Nesokia griffithii, Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 145 (1851); Blyth J. A. 



S. B., xxxii, p. 332. 

 Nespkia huttoni, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxxii, p. 332 (1863) ; Blanford Persia, 



p. S9. pl-vi. fig- I. , 



Spalacomys indica, Peters Abhandl. Aiad. Berlin, p. 143, pi. ii, fig. i, 



[skull] (i860). 

 Mus (Nesokia) hardwickii, Anderson J. A. S. B., xlvii, p. 221 (1878) ; 



Thomas P. Z. S., 1881, p. 524 ; Murray Zoal. Sind, p, 44. 

 Mus (Nesokia) huttoni, Anderson y. A. S. B., xlvii, p. 223 (1878). 



Distribution. — The north-western part of India, extending west- 

 wards through Sind to Baluchistan, Afghanistan and Transcaspia, 

 and eastwards as far as Purneah in Bengal. 



An examination of the examples of this species in the Indian 

 Museum shows that it is not possible to separate the two so-called 

 species Nesokia hardwickii and Nesokia huttoni even as geogra- 

 phical races ; of the specimens in the Museum from Sind, some have 

 the soft fur of the typical N. huttoni form, some the harsh fur of 

 N. ha,rdwickii ; it is perhaps possible that this character may be due 

 to the season, and that the animal acquires the soft woolly fur in 

 the winter and the harsh fur in the summer; in the localities 

 where this species is found, the extremes of heat and cold are very 

 great, and this would perhaps favour this suggestion. 



Nesokia scullyi. 



Nesokia scullyi. Wood Mason, P. A. S. B., p. 80 (1876) ; Anderson y. A. S.B., 

 xlvii, p. 224 ; Blanford Yarband Mammals., p 49, pi, viiia, and xa, fig, 2. 



