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Show 532 MR. W. L. SCLATER ON SOME INDIAN MURID.E. [June 17, this species, as several of them possess fairly well-developed cusp to the front edge of the anterior molar. The specimens from about Calcutta and Northern India are remarkably free from spines in the fur; this is specially the case with the specimens named by Blyth Mus terricolor, all of which seem to be immature. The type of Mus fulvidiventris is in very bad condition, but there does not seem to be any reasonable doubt that it is conspecific with this species. There are examples of this species in the large Museum series from nearly all over India, viz. Karachi in Sind ; Futtegurh, Etawah, Banda, and Allahabad, N.W.P.; Bhandura and Chanda, C. P. ; Poona in Bombay; Madras, Shevaroy Hills, Trichinopoly, and Ganjan in Madras P. ; Trincomali in Ceylon ; Sirgunja, Midnapur, Maunbhoon, aud Calcutta, in Bengal. It is also recorded from Burmah under the name of Mus beavani by Blyth in the ' Mammals of Burma ' (J. A. S. B. xliv.); but this is probably a mistake, as Mug beavani was described by Peters from Maunbhoon, not from Burma. 29. VANDELEURIA OLERACEA (Bennett); Thomas, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 556. This Mouse is a very distinct form and leads away towards the two other genera Chiropodomys and Hapalomys described below. Dr. Anderson has given a very full account of the species in his 'Zoolo-logical and Anatomical Researches,' to which nothing more can be added, except perhaps the fact that it has hitherto not been recorded from Ceylon. I send figures of the skull (Plate XLIV. fig. 4) and of the dentition (Plate XLV. fig. 10). 30. CHIROPODOMYS GLIROIDES. Mug gliroides, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 721 (1856). Mus peguensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 295 (1859). ? Chiropodomys penicillatus, Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1868, p. 448, pi. i. : Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, (2) iv. p. 631. Chiropodomys gliroides, Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 78, and 1889, p. 235. The unique type of Mus gliroides of Blyth has unfortunately disappeared from the Museum, so that it is not possible to be absolutely sure as to whether Mus peguensis is identical with it or not; there seems, however, to be no reasonable doubt on the subject, since there is in the Museum a Mouse from Cherra Punji, whence the type originally came, which entirely agrees with the description of Mus gliroides, and this specimen is certainly conspecific with the type of Mus peguensis. Of Chiropodomys penicillatus, which is the type of the genus, it is not possible to be certain without a direct comparison of the types, but there is nothing in the description to prevent its being absolutely identical with Mus gliroides of Blyth. In this form the fur is long and soft and not spiny ; ou the back it is slate-coloured for about three-quarters of its length, the other |