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Show 386 MR. J. L. BONHOTE ON THE [Nov. 28, Habitat. Only recorded from W. and N.W. Fokien. The first specimens of these Rats were all obtained high yip on the mountains among rocky ground, in the crevices of which it lives. Beyond this, nothing is known of its habits. It has only been taken in W. and N.W. Fokien. Mus c o x in g i Swinhoe. Mus coninga Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1864, pp. 185, 382. Mus coxinga Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 637; Thos. Ann. Mus. Gen. 1892, p. 939 (footnote). Mus coxingi Swinhoe, Bonli. Fasc. Malay., Zool. vol. i. pp. 33 & 36 (1903). Mas coninga (under which name it was originally described by Swinhoe) is undoubtedly a Rat of the jerdoni type (rajah subgroup), and not the> jerdoni subgroup as noted by me. The typical form, as described by Swinhoe, has the upper parts reddish brown, sprinkled with stiff black bristles, especially on the back, where the fur is also often a little darker. Under parts pure white; feet white; tail bicolor, white at the tip. The skulls at my disposal are too fragmentary to allow of a description. Dimensions (from skin). Head and body 208 mm. ; tail 180 ; hind foot 36. Skull. Palatal length 19 mm.; diastema 11; incisive foramina 7; length of nasals 17; interorbital breadth 6*5; length of molar series (alveoli) 8 mm. Habitat. Formosa. Swinhoe noted many varieties of this species as occurring in Formosa; these doubtless represent forms belonging to the different subgroups of the jerdoni group, but unfortunately the only specimens I have been able to examine are a portion of Swinhoe's series of which the skulls are all defective. It is therefore impossible to distinguish any of these varieties by name; but the true coxingi may be distinguished by its white feet, the white tip to its tail, and the fact that the fur is thickly beset with spines. Mus c o n fu c ia n u s A. M.-E. Mus confucianus A, M.-Edwards, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. vii. p. 93 (1871); id. Recli. Mamm. p. 286, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1874); Thos. P. Z S. 1898, p. 773 (partim); Bonli. Fasc. Malay., Zool. vol. i. p. 33. General colour above dark brown (clay, Ridgw.), shading to pale buff or yellowish on the flanks. Fur slate-grey at the base with pale fulvous tip, interspersed amongst which are long black bristles. The pale tips predominate over the black so as to give the animal the appearance noted above. Occasionally these bristles are semi-spinous, and in one or two examples the fur is exceedingly harsh and spiny ; but as a rule it is quite soft to the |