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Show 1874.] SIR V. BROOKE ON THE GENUS CERVULUS. 41 CERVULUS REEVESI. (Plate IX.) 1838. Cervus reevesi, Ogilby, P. Z. S. p. 105. 1862. Cervulus reevesi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. p. 361. 1870. Cervulus reevesi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. p. 644. 1873. Cervulus reevesi, Gray, Hand-list Rum. M a m m . p. 165. Anterior parts of the face below the eyes brown ; between the eyes the hair becomes more scanty, strong black lines running from each frontal gland up the inside of the horn-pedestals. Upper parts of the forehead become gradually rufous from the mixture of red hairs, the rufous becoming more intense on the occiput and ending in a strongly defined line between the ears. Posterior of neck, back, and sides grizzly rufous, a line running down the centre of the neck and back and forearms bluish brown. Cheeks, throat, belly, and upper surface of tail rufous. Chin and under surface of tail white. Fawn without spots. Fig. 5. Skull of Cer indus reevesi. Skull. Depression for the reception of the suborbital gland, of immense size, modifying all the surrounding bones, and giving the parts of the skull anterior to the orbits a compressed appearance from above downwards, the floor of the suborbital fossa being much flattened and pulled out laterally. The pedestals of the frontal bones, in all the specimens examined by me, much more parallel than in the two other species. Frontal supraorbital ridges very strongly developed. Parts anterior to the suborbital gland compressed from side to side and very short, Height scarcely 13" at the shoulder. Hab. Southern China, from the latitude of Canton, as far north as Ningpo ; Formosa. Females hornless. Canines in the males long, pulp-cavity non-persistent. Suborbital fossa deep, anteorbital vacuity small. Tarsus with the navicular, cuboid, external, and middle cuneiform bones united. Phalanges of second and fifth metacarpals and metatarsals absent. The figure (Plate IX.) is taken from a specimen living in the Society's Gardens since August 1867. See Rev. Cat. Vert. p. 109. P.S. (Feb. 27).-Since reading this paper I have seen the type of Cervulus lacrymans, figured and described by M . Alphonse Milne- Edwards in his * Recherches pour servir a l'Histoire Naturelle des |