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are generally illustrated by such exceedingly bad and imperfect skins, 
that little can be satisfactorily made out from them. 
The Mus Hardwickii, Gray, (noticed in p. 330,) rests on a single 
specimen in the British museum. It is certainly distinct from Nesokia 
indica, having a much shorter tail, measuring (vertebra) but 2} inch ; 
the fur dense, shortish, and of uniform length. 
M. (?) hydrophilus, Hodgson, (p. 331,) has very soft fur, much 
finer than that of NV. indica. 
Nesokia Grifithii, Horsfield, (p. 332,) is founded on a young speci- 
men of N. indica. 
Mus setifer, Horsfield, (p. 334,) is founded on a bad and imperfect 
specimen of M. bandicota, (p. 333); but M. setifer apud Cantor, from 
Pinang, is very different, being identical with my I. andamanensis 
(p. 340.) The small specimen from Malacca in the Society’s museum, 
doubtiully referred to M. setifer (in p. 355), is probably the young of 
M. andamanensis. 
M. brunneus, Hodgson, (p. 335,) as illustrated by a good specimen 
in the India museum, is identical with IZ. nemoralis, nobis, (p. 340,) 
and Mr. Hodgson’s name holds precedence ; the species being nearly 
akin to MZ. alexandrinus. 
M plurimammis, Hodgson, (p. 336,) in India museum, is a well 
marked species. 
“ M. decumanoides, Tem. (nec Hodgson,)” apud Horsfield, (p. 338,) 
is the common M. rufescens, (p. 340); and the M. asiaticus, Gray, 
(p. 341,) appears to me to be no other. 
M. caudatior, Hodgson, and IM. cinnamomeus, nobis, (p. 341,) are, 
I think, identical ; but the Nipalese specimens are much less brightly 
coloured than those from Burma, 
M. peguensis, nobis (p. 845.) I found a specimen of this strongly 
marked species, unnamed, from the Philippines, in the Derby museum 
of Liverpool. 
M. bactrianus, gerbillinus, and Theobaldi, (p. 347,) are identical, as 
I suggested ; and I have seen what appears to be the very same mouse 
from Syria and N. Africa. The specimen of JZ. bactrianus, originally 
described by me, is now in the British museum. 
M. Darjeelingensis, Horsfield, (p. 348,) comes exceedingly close to 
M. strophiatus, H. (p. 349); and M. terricolor, nobis, to I. minutoides 
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