Leopoldamys edwardsi (Thomas, 1882) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882:587.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, mountains of W Fujian (probably Kuatun) .

DISTRIBUTION: India (W Bengal, Sikkim, N Assam), N Burma, S and C China (to S Anhui; Liu et al., 1985), N Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malay Peninsula, and W Sumatra.

SYNONYMS: ciliatus, garonum, gigas, hainanensis, listeri, melli, milleti, setiger .

COMMENTS: Requires taxonomic revision. Samples from Indochina may represent a different species than the one sampled from Malay Peninsula and Sumatra (Musser, 19816). In additon to synonyms assembled by Musser (19816), Xu and Yu (1985) recently described hainanensis . Phallic morphology described by Yang and Fang (1988) in context of assessing phylogenetic relationships among Chinese murines.