result of MAMMALIA. 47 
^^H 1 ancf Je^i num her °f species is considerably larger than it was supposed to 
l" lc ‘ Us by Geoffroy 1 xr^ e ^° rmer cons * d ered the various animals described as Mus 
desrSf^ and Nemkh . Mm i Neotoma ) Wovidens by W. Elliot, 4 Mm kok* Mm 
•-» *y ciXlCt Jyfii 7 \ wwnvwj js/ *si/vu/c/t,o vj >7 . _uiiiut 5 J}±lbb h,(Jh 9 ' J.kLwo 
be ^ ^ 0rnas > all to bol tar( [ lc ^ (; ^- n by Dr. Gray, Mm huttoni , 2 3 4 * 6 7 by himself, and some other 
< ‘'‘red the Arrimi . ° n S t° one; species, which he called Nesokia indica, and to which 
i nt - °f the numerous ^ mdlcaoi Gra y and Hardwicke. 8 He was also disposed to believe that 
Nepal woul,n Un< i' S ^ ven by Mr. Hodgson to the various species of rats and mice 
till V s lecl ’ 9 io after exami ^ ±0Und t0 belon » to tlie same anim al. In some notes subsequently 
c JJ»s of j\r. hardviicM ^ typCS in tllG Britisl1 Museum, Mr. Blytli recognised the dis- 
Be' Ch he identified ate ?i the “ ^ort-tailed mole rat” of the North- West Provinces, an animal 
suh^ Southern Tr ^ NesoJeia hardmcJcei, from the longer tailed Nesokia of 
Se fiaently io <, a , ia ’ aud indicated the existence of at least one additional species. I 
1 leas °ns for distinguishing N. huttoni of Baluchistan and Kandahar from 
l(:r the differei ^'r add Hiat ^th a much increased knowledge of A r . hardwickei I doubt 
A? ^ sh oul d be afi T^i d Blen me ntioned are constant. 
h (lr dieickei ° ( .aJ lat Brob deters of Berlin, in 1860, gave an excellent description of 
C|< i s 'Vere undes • 1 1 b ^ Ures °i He skull, under the supposition 
r - -Anderson V„ ? • ’ an< ^ be cad ed it Spalacomys indica. 11 
that the genus and 
'f ^ole-rats of^ Fece M P a P er > considers Nesokia a subgenus of Mm, and refers to it, 
'!/m \° lunUii > previous} eid ° n ’ Ble bandicoot, Mus bandicota v. giganteus, and an allied species, 
ar e . 01 Hodgson o - unnamed, unless it prove, as is not improbable, to be M. nemori- 
type &SSed by Dr. le ^ ruc setifer 13 of Horsfield. The species ref erred to the subgenus 
°*' He r,. — erson in three sections, — one, the typical group containing the original 
C'ua'V.He genus N ^ secuons r — one, tlie typical group containing the original 
He N. ’indie mdmcJeei > and d -s allies N. huttoni and N. scullyi ; a second section 
clay ( ^ n * eb he separates and Hrdon, which Dr. Anderson renames N. blythiana ,and 
nidi " ~ *" ‘ ’ 
th 
’ and He band' S t ' P rov ^ em °f Llliot, and another species which he calls N. bar- 
:> 8 * Heofi'j.Qy _S' ! °up, N. giganteus and N. elliotanus. He shews that the Mus 
r.ii rru ' as Mus, 1 . .. \ 1 aire Was not a Nesokia, and ho considers that Armenia indica was 
au 0 ti t dS Mus hard ■ not a nesokia, and he considers that Armcola mdica was 
rr,, 1 s Peeifi c uarne ' '\ \ conscf [ uen tly the Nesokia indica of Blyth and Jerdon requires 
the f 0 ]j lf> ‘bfferences bet le ^ ers Bie Kashmir species to N. barclayana. 
Wlu c h ^Hig; th e p a i ( .^ Cen tbe two more important sec H°ns of the genus or subgenus are 
to »r_ ic P r eseut work 1 - C °° ts ’ b)rm ing the third section, do not extend into the countries with 
(l °ubt, they beincr < '. <mcem<!d > and Heir title to be classed in the genus Nesokia is open 
lu Hot, intermediate in characters between Nesokia and Mus. In 
2 ' B., 1863, xxxii, pp. 328—333. 
3 Mam - Ind., pp. 187, 190. 
4 Besmarest, Mam., p. 299. 
I Jour. Lit. Soi., x, p. 209. 
6 Bharleaworth’s Mag. Nat. Hist., 1837, Ser. 1, i, p. 585. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 184.2, Ser. 1, x, p. 265. 
’ ' A - S -B., 1846, xv, p. 139. 
„ J lustr - Bid. Zool„ Vol. i, PL Xi. 
io i ■ xxxiv, Pt. 2, p. 193. 
u ^astern Persia, ii, p. 59. 
l2 Abi <L 'C. tad. Wiss. Berlin, 1860, p. 143, PI. ii, fig. 1. 
" Ann V: . Hist., 1845, Ser. 1, xv, p. 266. 
r>%earoh4», PI. 
