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Show 1890.] MR. W. L. SCLATER ON SOME INDIAN MURID^.. 531 The Indian Museum possesses examples of this species from the Etawah and Banda districts of the North-west Provinces, from Karachi in Sind, and the Madras Presidency ; Blanford has recorded it from Admednagur, and Sir W . Elliot from the Deccan. This Rat, therefore, seems to be found only in the western and southern parts of India. 26. Mus GLEADOWI, Murray, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 809, pi. Ii. This species seems to be very closely allied to Mus mettada, from which it is distinguished by its considerably smaller size and by its much shorter and narrower tarsus. Moreover, Mus gleadowi never seems to possess more than four pads on the hind foot, while all the specimens of Mus mettada in our Museum possess the proximal fifth pad. The skull (cf. table of measurements, p. 537) resembles that of Mus mettada very closely, except that it is slightly smaller in all its dimensions. The examples of this species in the Indian Museum are all males, so that I am unable to confirm Mr. Blanford's statement that the mammae are six in number, instead of eight as in Mus mettada. The measurements of the three specimens in the Indian Museum agree very well with those given by Mr. Blanford in a note appended to the original description, i. e. head and body 3-40, tail 2-80, hind foot *70, forearm and hand -80, ear-conch -61, auditory meatus to muzzle -91. The type of the species described by Murray was procured near Kurrachee in Sind; the specimens in the Indian Museum are from Goona in Gwalior and from Kutch. 27. Mus (LEGGADA)PLATTTHRIX (Bennett); Thomas, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 553. To the synonyms of this species Mus spinulosis of Blyth (J. A. S. B. xxiii. p. 734) may be added. Blyth's type, which was procured in the Punjab by Mr. Theobald, agrees in every way with the descriptions and with the other undoubted specimens of Mus (Leggada) platythrix ; unfortunately the skull, which has been extracted from the type, seems to have been changed for another skull, for the one which is marked as belonging to the type specimen is certainly not identical with the skull of the Mus (Leggada) platgthrix, nor is it that of a Leggada at all. There are in the Indian Museum examples of this species from the Punjab, Kurrachee, Bhandara in the Central Provinces, Khan-dula in Bombay Presidency, and from South Malabar, and the Colla-gelly Hills in the Madras Presidency. This considerably extends the distribution as given by Thomas. 28. Mus (LEGGADA) BUDUGA, Gray; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 553. Blyth's specimens of Mus cervicolor seem to be rather referable to |