Millardia Thomas, 1911 . J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 20:998.

TYPE SPECIES: Golunda meltada Gray, 1837 .

SYNONYMS: Grypomys, Guyia, Millardomys .

COMMENTS: Listed as a distinct genus by Ellerman in 1941, but later as a subgenus of Rattus (Ellerman, 1961) . By 1969, Millardia was again treated as a genus and thought to be closely related to the Indian Cremnomys (Misonne, 1969) . Subsequent analyses of morphological features and particularly chromosomal traits has demonstrated the great phylogenetic distance between Rattus and Millardia (Gadi and Sharma, 1983; Mishra and Dhandra, 1975; Raman and Sharma, 1977). Cytogenetic analyses resulted in a phylogenetic hypothesis isolating Millardia and Cremnomys from other Asian genera (Gadi and Sharma, 1983). Two species of Millardia, until 1982 thought to be strictly an Asian genus, were recorded from the Pliocene of Ethiopia (Sabatier, 1982). One of the species is apparently a Millardia but the other was reidentified as an Acomys (Denys, 1990) .