. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 418 Dr. J. E. Gray on Rats. lobe of the lower jaw, and by the very great length of the upper and lower lobes of its hinder edge. Fig. Skull of Heliomys Jeudei. Heliomys Jeudei. (Fig. 2.) Hah. Unknown. Bandicota. Skull elongate, about twice as long as wide at the hinder part of the orbits. Nose elongate. Slit before the orbit short, with a thick callous front edge, oval and expanded above. Palatine slits elongate. Bandicota gigantea. The British Museum received two specimen
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 418 Dr. J. E. Gray on Rats. lobe of the lower jaw, and by the very great length of the upper and lower lobes of its hinder edge. Fig. Skull of Heliomys Jeudei. Heliomys Jeudei. (Fig. 2.) Hah. Unknown. Bandicota. Skull elongate, about twice as long as wide at the hinder part of the orbits. Nose elongate. Slit before the orbit short, with a thick callous front edge, oval and expanded above. Palatine slits elongate. Bandicota gigantea. The British Museum received two specimens of a male and female rat, which Dr. A. B. Meyer obtained at Aru Island in April 1870, and at Buntimunang, in the south-west part of Celebes, in November. It is intermediate in size and the harshness of the fur between the Bandicote and the Norway rat {Mus decumanus). Uromys, Peters. Skull elongate, about twice as long as broad at the hinder part of the orbit. Nose arched down. Slit before the orbits short; front edge simple, with a conical projection contracting the slit and expanding into an oval form above. The palatine slits rather short. Dr. Peters established this genus upon a rat which I had described under the name of Mus macropus (P. Z. S. 1866, p. 221)—calling it Uromys macropus (Peters, Monatsber. 1867, p. 3, t.), and giving a very good figure of the animal, with details of its skull; but macropus is a larger species than U. aruensis, the skull is not so arched and bent down in front, and the tail is nearly two thirds white and the basal third dark. The palatine slits are equally short in both species. Uromys aruensis. Reddish brown: back, especially in the middle', varied with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd
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