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Show 556 MR. O. THOMAS ON T H E [May 3, Table of Measurements. Length of head and body ,, tail „ hind foot „ forearm and ,, ear-conch Breadth of ear-conch ... Nose to ear Leggada platythrix. Ad. S-Deccan (type). in. 3*3 30 •67 •90 •39 •33 •89 Ad. rj. S. India. in. 3*45 2*55 •70 •92 •46 •41 •95 Ad. 2- Madras. in. 3*3 2*63 •68 •84 •45 •44 •93 L. buduga. Ad. tf. Ceylon. in. 2*8 2*45 •65 •76 •39 •35 •79 Ad. cS-Madras. in. 2*5 2*45 •57 •71 •38 •35 •66 Ad. 2- Ajmere. in. 2*45 2*53 •57 •65 •37 •32 •65 L. minutoides. Dr. Smith's types. South Africa. in. 215 1-77 •53 •62 •31 •30 •59 in. 2*09 1-75 •52 •61 •33 •32 •60 Subgenus VANDELEURIA. Vandeleuria, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. x. p. 265 (1842). First and fifth toes on both fore and hind feet provided with a short nail instead of a claw (see Plate LI. fig. 13 & 13a). Tail very long. There is only one undoubted species of this subgenus, of which the following is the synonymy :- 19. Mus (VANDELEURIA) OLERACEUS. *Mus oleraceus, Benn. P. Z. S. 1832, p. 121 (1832). *Mus longicaudatus, Ell. Madr. Journ. x. p. 94 (sine descr.) (1839). Mus dumicolus, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. x. p. 915 (1841). Vandeleuria oleraceus, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. x. p. 265 (1842). *Mus (Vandeleuria) dumeticola, Hodgs. Ann. & Mag. N. H. xv. p. 268 (1845). Muspovensis, Hodgs. op. cit. p. 269 (1845). Mus {Vandeleuria) oleraceus, Anders. Zool. Yunn. Exp. p. 313 (1878). Hab. Burmah, and all India from Nepal to Madras. Fur above bright rufous, the roots of the hairs dark slate-colour ; belly pure white. Mammae 8, two pectoral and two inguinal pairs. Tail very much longer than the head and body. Hind foot and pads as shown in Plate LI. fig. 13. An upper view of the fifth toe, on a larger scale, is also given (fig. 13 «) to show its very peculiar short nail. The caecum is unusually large for such a small animal, measuring no less than P6 inch in an adult female, in which also the whole length of the intestine from pylorus to anus is just over 13 inches. This is such a well-marked species, and Dr. Anderson (I. c.) has recently so well described it, that I need only give its chief dimensions, taken from the type specimen, an adult male in spirit, collected by Col. Sykes in the Deccan. |