Mus terricolor Blyth, 1851 . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 20:172.

TYPE LOCALITY: S India, Bengal, neighborhood of Calcutta .

DISTRIBUTION: Indigenous to peninsular India, Nepal, and Pakistan; occurs also in Medan region of N Sumatra (Indonesia) where it was probably inadvertently introduced (Musser and Newcomb, 1983, discussed under dunni).

SYNONYMS: beavanii, dunni .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Mus . Formerly referred to as M. dunni (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977b, 1986), but terricolor is the older name. Chromosomal results presented by Sharma et al. (1986, under dunni) in context of evolutionary divergence from other species of Mus .