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Show 1890.] MR. W. L. SCLATER ON SOME INDIAN MURID.E. 523 by Biichner in the account of the Mammals obtained by Przewalski in Central Asia, which seems to resemble Nesokia scullyi very closely, and which, when the types are compared, will probably be found to be identical with it. Przewalski's species is somewhat larger than the type of N. scullyi and has a somewhat shorter tail. 3. NESOKIA BENGALENSIS (Gray); Thomas, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 526. This is one of the commonest of all the Indian Bats and is found all over India ; there are specimens in the Museum from Srinugger, Sind, North-west Provinces, Bombay, Central Provinces, and Bengal; there are also specimens from Cachar and other parts of Assam, Burma, and Mergui. In the south of India and Ceylon it is replaced by a geographical race, differing merely in being somewhat smaller ; of this, there are examples from the Nilgiris, Trichinopoly, and Ceylon. 4. NESOKIA BANDICOTA (Bechst.) ; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 528. The true Bandicoot is only found in Peninsular India, that is in India south of the Ganges and Indus. It has frequently been reported from Calcutta, but on investigation the specimens are found to be either unusually large individuals of Mus decumanus or the rarer Nesokia nemorivaga. 5. NESOKTA NEMOP.IVAGA (Hodgs.); Thomas, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 529. This species replaces the last in the Eastern Himalayas, Eastern Bengal, and Assam ; it is also found in Formosa ; whether it is the same as the Mus bandicota of Cantor from the Malay Peninsula and Mus setifer of Horsfield from Java it is, in the absence of specimens from those localites, impossible to say. There is in the Museum a very small series of this species of Nesokia ; the four specimens come from the following localities- Purneah, Alipur (Calcutta), and Sibsengar, Assam. Specimens of this Bandicoot from Assam, Burmah, or the Malay Peninsula would be most welcome additions to our collection. 6. Mus DECUMANUS, Pallas; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 532. The Norway or Brown Rat does not seem to have spread much over India; all our specimens with one exception come from seaports where, especially in Calcutta, this species is excessively common; besides those from Indian ports there are in the Museum examples of this species from the Andamans and the Persian Gulf. 7. Mus RATTUS, Linnaeus; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 533. Subsp. a. ALEXANDRI-STUS. Subsp. 6. NITIDUS. Subsp. C. RUEESCENS. Mr. Thomas now considers that the Alexandrine Rat (Mus |