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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 Andamán animal, witli its extraordinarily large canines, may 

 prove to be different ; bub it is likely that vve sball 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 wíld Cat ;" and it is the only one as 

 yet discovered in the Andamán islands appertaining to the Linnsean 

 order Ferce. 



Mus (Leggada ?) A"NDAMANENSis, nobis, n. s. The indigenous Kat 

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

 Gray, founded on the Mus platytheix, Bennett, and M. lepidus, 

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

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

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

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

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

 and the limbs proportionally less robust, than 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 (Platacanthomts lasiurus, J. A. S. XXVIII, 289), but are very 

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

 is a magnified representative of M. spinulostts, 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 equal to the head and body ; hind-foot with claws 1| 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 manei, Gray. Taken from the stomach of a venomous Snake, 

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

 species being determined with absolute accuracy. (A good specimen 

 has since been rcceived entire in spirit.) 



Sus ANDAMANENSis, nobis (J. d. S. XXVII, 267, XXVI [I ? 271). 



