344 A memoir on the Rats and Mice of India. [No. 4, 
row ; skull about 1in., 2 lin. ; hind-feet about lin.” (Gray). No other 
measurements given! “ Nepal.” 
Mvs Z#QUIcAUDALIS, Hodgson, described in Horsfield’s Cata- 
logue, p. 144. “ Pure dark brown above, with a very slight cast of 
rufescent in a certain aspect ; underneath, from the chin to the vent 
with interior of the thighs, yellowish-white. ars nearly an inch 
long; head proportionally long. Dimensions from the snout to the 
root of the tail, 83 in.; tail in the living animal, equal in length to 
the body ; head 25 in.” (Hodgson.) 
Of all of the foregoing species or races described by Mr. Hodgson, 
carefully prepared specimens are most acceptable; and residents in 
the hill-stations should be able to identify at least some of them, and 
so help to elucidate such distinctions as may really exist among them. 
Mvs concotor, nobis, J. A. 8., XXVIII. 295 (the young) ; and 
M. (unnamed), p. 294 zbed., (the adult). Common small thatch Rat 
of Pegu and Tenasserim provinces. This species conducts from the 
long-tailed Arboreal Rats to the ordinary house Mice. Certain Arboreal 
Mice that are diminutives of the former constitute the VANDELEURIA 
of Gray Ann. Mag. N. H., X. (1842), p. 265: such are— 
Mus oneracevs, Bennett, P. Z. 8. 1832, p. 121: AL. oleraceus et 
(olim) longicaudatus, Klliot; Jf. dumeticola, Hodgson, and the 
young (?), IL. povensis, H., Ann. Mag. N. H., XV. (1845) 268-9, 
also J. dwmecolus, Hodgson, (undescribed). Length about or nearly 
6 in.; tail 4 to 44 in.* Ofa bright pale chesnut hue; below, white. 
“Constructs its nest of oleraceous herbs in the fields.’’ (Sykes). 
Specimens from Asam and from the Deyra Doon are absolutely simi- 
lar to others from 8. India; and as Hodgson’s descriptions of a 
Nepalese Mouse also accord, I infer that his species differs in no 
respect. “Tenants woods and coppices.”’ (Hodgson). 
Mus panvivs, Blyth, J. A. 8., XXVIII. 295. Like M. oLeRAcEtvs, 
but the eye fully twice as large, and black whiskers; colour of the 
upper-parts a more rufous chesnut or cinnamon hue; of the lower- 
parts white, almost pure. Length of a female 3 in. to base of tail ; 
the tail 4$ in.; and hind-foot 3 in. Received from Schwe Gyen.} 
* A Deyra Doon example in spirit measured 23 in., with tail 43 in. 
+ We have a small rufous Mouse in spirit, which I suspect is from Kashmir, 
or otherwise trans-Himalayan. I cannot distinguish it from M. minutus, Pallas 
(vide Messorius, White, &c.), also in spirit from England. 
