350 A memowr on the Rats and Mice of India. [No. 4, 
vous tips to the softer fur: below and all the feet [dull] whitish. 
Upper rodential tusks orange, the lower white. Whiskers long and 
fine, the posterior and longer of them black for the basal half or more, 
the rest white. Length of adult male (in spirit) 384 in.; tail 3 in. 
(about, the extreme tip wanting in the specimen); planta % in.” 
(K. B.) From the Punjab, and specimens since received from 8, 
Malabar, (J. A. S. XXIX. 3,) are quite similar, unless rather larger, 
and there is little difference in the colour of the upper and lower 
tusks. 
L. Jerpont, Bl. 2. s. Bright dark ferruginous above, pure white 
below; some fine long black tips intermingled among the spines of 
the back: limbs marked with blackish externally; the feet white. 
Length about 4 in.; tail 35 in.; hind-foot Zin. Procured in Sikhim 
by Dr. Jerdon. 
L. pratyturix; Mus platythriz, Bennett, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 1213 
M. saxicola, Elliot, MSS. Light sandy brown, white beneath ; the 
flat spines less developed than in the two preceding species. Length 
34 in.; tail 24 in.; hind-foot 2in.; 8S. India. Vide Elliot in Madr. 
Journ. Lit. Sc. X. (1839), p. 215. 
L. vepipa; Mus lepidus Elliot, Madr. Journ. L. Sc. X. 216: L. 
booduga, Gray, I. N. H., 1. (1887), p. 586. Similar to the last but 
smaller, and but weakly spinous. “The dimensions of an old male 
were—length of head and body 2,% in.; tail 2,4 in.; hind-foot 55 
in.” (Hlliot). Vide loc. cit. 8. India. “ Inhabits India, Bombay. 
They live in pairs in the black soil, making little burrows, in which 
they produce two or three young.’ (Gray.) ‘The colour of this 
small mouse would rather indicate that its abode was in a pale sandy 
soil. Mr. Elliot writes—‘“ Lives generally in pairs in the red soil,” &. 
Another type has been designated Gonunna by Dr. Gray, in 
MM. N. H., 1. (1887), p. 586. “The grinders, when perfect, low, 
with a broad flat crown; the cross-ridges of the crown of the upper 
grinders divided into three distinct slightly raised tubercles. Rat- 
like Mus.” 
G. Exuiott, Gray, I. WV. H. 2nd series, I. (1837), p. 586, (nec 
Mus Ellioti, Gray, Br. Mus. Cat.). “ Fur pale brown, with minute, 
very slender, hair-pointed black tips. Chin, throat, and beneath, 
whitish. Under fur paler. Teeth yellow; upper cutting teeth groov- 
