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Show 3 9 4 MR. .J. L. BONHOTE ON THE [Nov. 28,. Key to the larger Chinese Species of Mus. (Hind-foot measurement of the smallest, 26 mm.). A. Colour of under parts sharply divided from that of upper parts. a. Size large. Hind foot 57 mm. .................................................. M.edwavdsi. b. Smaller. Hind foot not exceeding 36 mm. «i. Feet white ............................................................................ coxingi. b\. Feet coloured. General colour dull brown (clay, Ridgw.). Hind foot 39 mm................................................................ M. confucianus_ b,y General colour brighter (ochraceous rufous, R.). Hind foot 30 mm..................................................... M. huang. Smaller and paler. Hind foot 27 mm. ............... M. ling. B. Colour of under parts not sharply divided from that of upper parts. a. Tail bicolor. Hands white. « 1. Tail clothed with minute set;e. Hind foot 33 mm. M. griseipectus. bx. Tail clothed with hairs. a2. Large. Hind foot 36 mm........................................... M. norvegicus. Smaller. Hind foot 30 mm........................................ M. humiliatus. b. Tail unicoloured. Hands brown with white margins. ax. Fur of under parts with slate-coloured bases. « 2. Size large. Hind foot 31 mm.................................. M. flavipectus. b2. Smaller. Hind foot 26 mm....................................... M. losea. bx. Fur of under parts white throughout. Hind foot 60 mm.................................................................................. M. I at ouch ei. Mus MUSCULUS L. Mus musculus L., Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 382, and 1870, p. 637. The common House-Mouse does not seem to be very abundant in China, though there are several specimens in the Museum from widely separated localities in that country. A description of so well known a species would be superfluous, and there is no other mouse with which it could well be confused. Dimensions (from spirit-specimen). Head and body 77 mm.; tail 80; hind foot 17. M icr om ys Delme. Micromys (type of genus Micromys agilis, Dehne, Hoflossnitz, 1841), revived by 0. Thomas, Ann. Mag. N. H. ser. 7, vol. xv. p. 491 (May 1905). Mr. Thomas has used Micromys as the generic name of several species of the smaller mice hitherto included under the universal genus " Mus.11 The Chinese forms belonging to it are :- Mus sylvaticus chevrieri. ,, ,, draco. Mus minutus pygmceus. Mus agrarias mcmchuricus. ,, ,, ningpoensis. The distinctive character of this genus is that the posterior |