B26 jouknal, e.a.s. (ceylon). [Vol. II., Paet II. 



^ Mus Kandiyanus, n sp., nobis; Mus Albiventer, MS. 



Fur very soft and silky ; above yellow brown, beneath 

 and inside of limbs milky white ; hair of back and upper 

 parts lead colour, with yellow and black tips, the latter 

 fewer ; whiskers black, very long, a few shorter grayer 

 ones ; ears large, ovate, slightly villous ; feet grayish- 

 flesh-coloured ; claws, white those of the fore feet short ; 

 rudimentary thumb clawless ; claws of the three middle 

 subequal ; hind toes acute and longer, overlapped with gray 

 hairs ; soles bald, flesh-coloured ; five tubercles to fore 

 and six to hind soles ; internal and hinder tubercle of the 

 latter elongated; tail, longer than the head and body, scaly, 

 and covered with short dressed black hair, which are longer 

 towards the extremity ; cutting teeth smooth, yellow. 



Length of head and body ... 6^ inches. 



Length of tail ... 7 -J „ 



Palma ... ... 5 5-12 „ 



Planta ... ... 1 12-12 „ 



This is one of the common house rats of the Kandyan 

 Provinces. The specimens from Nuwara Eliya are larger, 

 and the fur softer and of a deeper lead colour than those 

 from Kandy, Badulla, or Kurunegala. As there is more 

 than one white-bellied species of rat in the Island, the term 

 Kandiyanus has been substituted for albiventer. 



Mus (Jeylonus, n. sp., nobis. 



Fur soft, lead colour, that of upper parts tipped with 

 fawn colour ; ears large, naked ; whiskers black, moder- 

 ately long ; tail brown, scaly, and covered with short 

 adpressed brown hair ; feet brown ; soles purplish. 



Head and body ... 4| inches. 



Tail ... ... 5 „ 



This small rat is found in outhouses in the Cinnamon 

 Gardens, Colombo. 



