The inner sides of the thighs are rufous, and the hands and feet are yellowish white. The body has a fairly stout form. The fifth finger and the fifth toe are short. Hadromys resembles Golunda in general external appearance, but its tail is slightly longer, and its fur is not spiny or less spiny. The upper incisors of Golunda are grooved.
Females have eight mammae.
Seven specimens were collected for the Zoological Survey of India in connection with a scrub typhus outbreak in 1945. Soil loamy with rock beneath and with practically no humus. Usually not associated with streams. . . . Tree canopy very open. Very tall grass, over 3-4 meters high.